Hi, under "Utils" tab, you can read:

"New Permissions

This is a one-time action to be taken after upgrading from a pre-5.0 unRAID server release to version 5.0. It is also useful for restoring default ownership/permissions on files and directories when transitioning back from Active Directory to non-Active Directory integration.

This will start a background process that goes to each of your data disks and cache disk and change all file and directory ownership (uid/gid) to 99/100, i.e., to nobody/users. In addition it sets permissions as follows:

For directories:

  -rwxrwx---

For read/write files:

  -rw-rw---

For readonly files:

  -r--r-----

This process can take a long time if you have many files."

 

I really don´t understand how it works. Since I am having problems with copying files from my pc to my shares (I get an error telling me I don´t have any permissions to do that), I would really appreciate if anyone can explain to me the functionality of the "Utils" tab.

Rgds.

 

 

Due to the new method of managing shares in version 5 new permissions settings are required after an upgrade from version 4.7. If add-ons are not configured correctly or command line file operations are not done correctly it may be necessary to run it again.

Hi, I did a clean install of 5.0b11 so this does not apply to me.

 

I checked the following...

1) I created 3 new shares:

00_DATA PERSONAL

00_MEDIA

00_MEDIA PERSONAL

2) I then copied folders/files from an external HDD (mounted using SNAP) to 00_MEDIA. The folders/files were created with a previous version of unraid (4.7). For example, let´s say one of the folders is "SCIFI MOVIES"

3) Now I downloaded a movie from Internet to my pc and then tried to copy it to my 00_MEDIA share>folder "SCIFI MOVIES". I get a permissions error.

4) Now I create a new folder in my 00_MOVIES, let´s say it´s called "YYY". After that I try to copy a file from my pc to 00_MOVIES>folder "YYY". It works. No permissions error.

Why is this happening?

How can I fix it?

Rgds.

 

The permissions were not set correctly while using the SNAP add-on. Run the New Permissions utility.

Hi,

-how should be the snap add-on be configured to allow permissions to work correctly (i still need to migrate more disks from my old array inv4.7 to 5.0b11)?

-to run the new permissions utility i only need to check "start" button in Utils tab, right?

Rgds.

It was not SNAP per se. It was to copy commands that you used. You can set up a script that will do the copy and then fix the permissions. The simplest solution is just to run the Utility.

Hi, thx for help. I did run the Utility and it worked.

"You can set up a script that will do the copy and then fix the permissions"....You mean I can´t run this script from snap? If so, let me know how should the script look like.

Rgds.

 

Here a script:

#!/bin/bash
args=("$@")
echo ... cp $*
cp $*
/usr/local/sbin/newperms ${args[$(( $# - 1 ))]}

 

Use this instead of cp.