Hi,

i used external Software Like Adanced Renamer or Tony media manger to rename Files on my Server via smb.

But now IT doesnt Work anymore. I mounted my smb share as a Drive in Windows Explorer. I can Change the Name manually, but the Tools cant Change IT.

The smb User hat write permissions.

I dont know of i mounted the smb share as a Drive in the past. But today the Software cant Access only via mounted Drives.

Any Idea, why its not working?

That's odd and probably not that common. What version of Unraid ?

I use Advanced Renamer very regularly to modify file names that are out of my standard naming scheme.

It works without any issues or tweaks to SMB, completly out of the box on regular network folders.

Maybe your Diagnostics will show something ?

I am so confused too.

I used it with Unraid 7.0.

This evening i update to 7.2.

Maybe it will work

Its not working in 7.20 as well.
Which part of diagnostics is relevant for smb?

Advanced Renamaer has only an unkown Error.

Edited November 12, 2025Nov 12 by Becksy

46 minutes ago, Becksy said:

Which part of diagnostics is relevant for smb?

Could be several and different depending on problem. Simpler and likely to save a lot of back and forth if you just

Attach Diagnostics ZIP to your NEXT post in this thread.

okay,

i made these diagnostics directly after trying to rename files with advanced renamer.

unraid-diagnostics-20251112-1903.zip

Which user share is involved?

Have you tried without using a mapped drive.

You can get to your server by typing \\server-name into the address on Windows File Explorer. Then navigate down to the files you want to rename.

I tried the shares "Serien" and "Filme".

Manually i can change names without problems.

The problem is only if i use external software like Advanced Renamer

Are these public shares?

there are private. but my smb user has write access

Retest after making the share public. Maybe your application isn't connecting with correct user.

it doenst work

On 11/17/2025 at 11:22 AM, Becksy said:

Manually i can change names without problems.

How exactly are you "manually" doing this?

On 11/27/2025 at 1:34 AM, trurl said:

How exactly are you "manually" doing this?

Sorry was on vacation.

Right clock on the file in Windows exlorer and then rename it

I think i have the solution.

I checked the User rights. The folder i always used for testing has as Owner "nobody" and as rights "drwxr-xr-x". So now write acess for Group and Other

I tested an other folder with Owner "root" and as rights "drwxrwxrwx"

If i remenber correctly the folder with the wrong files are uploaded via ftp.

Which settings are good for the folders? Need they root as Owner? Which user are used from eg jellyfin or are docker Guest user? And is my smb user part of the group or its an other user?

And how i can change the standard rights for ftp upload?

3 hours ago, Becksy said:

Which settings are good for the folders?

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/191221-some-musings-on-smb-and-samba-and-unraid-and-windows/#findComment-1561580

Because Unraid Samba usually provides access for Share Access users through the group permissions, permissions for directories/folders should be 777 (drwxrwxrwx) and for files 666 (-rw-rw-rw-).

3 hours ago, Becksy said:

Need they root as Owner?

IF you are using Samba, root is not allow to be a Share Access user!!! It is a security issue. And this restriction is enforced:

3 hours ago, Becksy said:

Which user are used from eg jellyfin or are docker Guest user?

Here are the settings required for things to work properly with Unraid:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/71764-support-binhex-krusader/page/38/#findComment-1486740

Here is how to set those settings:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/188600-share-permissions-changed-to-owner-99/#findComment-1540351

Note that the recommended default 'user' of choice for Dockers is "nobody". (This is a special user that was created for use in Linux for situations where the user had to have access to a resource but every little permission to really do anything dangerous. It is my understanding that it is not often used these days for these situation, but it remains available and the Unraid developers have done so in this instance.)

PS---- If the Docker was actually setup to be used with Unraid, these parameters should already be configured properly with Unraid. But there are a lot of Dockers out the world, some them are configured for use in that larger universe and they may have to reconfigured if they are going to write to the Unraid array.

Edited December 21, 2025Dec 21 by Frank1940

Thank you. This helps a lot.