I need to delete some files, but winduhs needs permission from user/nobody to do so.  How do I set that up?

I've had on & off issues with this, it's worse on my work laptop (win7 Enterprise w/domain) than my personal laptop.  6.1.x has been better than 6.0, but now I'm 100% unable to delete files.  I know windows 'simple' networking is a misnomer, but I don't see any settings in the web GUI that allow Read/Write/Total access to shares.

Sometimes when I copy a folder from my work laptop, the router crashes as well, so I know something isn't right, but I don't have much access to change config on the laptop.  My personal laptop hasn't crashed the network, but it sometimes gets write/delete errors which usually a reboot of unraid fixes (but is still a PITA)

 

This is a music dump cobbled together from old hardware (as well as a test rig) - I just want a big folder of music that I can move stuff in/out & correct tags.

What user are you connecting to unRAID with? What are the settings for the share you are having permission problems with?

Just a shot but have you tried running New Permissions?

 

I don't use Windows, I use Macs, and I record TV to UnRaid.

I shut it down every night and reboot the next day and normally I have no problem.

Every now and then if I record then watch something and delete without a reboot I will get an error but I never get that error after a reboot.

Just a guess but It' seems UnRaid takes a while to update permissions.

Just a shot but have you tried running New Permissions?

 

I don't use Windows, I use Macs, and I record TV to UnRaid.

I shut it down every night and reboot the next day and normally I have no problem.

Every now and then if I record then watch something and delete without a reboot I will get an error but I never get that error after a reboot.

Just a guess but It' seems UnRaid takes a while to update permissions.

Can't really say what either of your problems are, but unRAID does not update permissions on its own. The files will have whatever permissions are given to them when they are written.

 

Connecting via user 'andy' or 'root' (cannot connect via root from my work laptop)

I can't access the server from here (out of the country currently) but the user share is setup with mostly defaults.  I didn't see anything that would affect this in setting up a new user share / exporting via SAMBA.

 

If I copy from a windows box, how do I specify what permissions the files have (R/W/Delete)?

I have run 'new permissions' at some point to try to fix, but I cant remember when, so it didn't change much.

 

rebooting fixes it for a while for me as well (at least on personal laptop - win7pro)

Root user has no special network access to shares. If you try to login as root, unRAID just assumes an anonymous user. Also, see here

 

Ok had a little time to work on this. 

I followed the thread trurl linked & it makes sense, I have an issue there, but the fixes didn't work (I can read, but not modify files).  I re-ran 'New permissions' & changed the windows logon (personal laptop) to the same as the unRaid user (and tried new users).

The first share I set up was Download & I must have selected secure.  I changed it to Public, no change in how Windows acted (rebooted both server & client), Changed it back to 'secure' and now I have the 3 user/guest read/write permission settings, that I don't recall setting before, changed to R/W. still no dice.  Even rebooting server/windows doesn't allow me to delete files from 'Download'

 

I can delete from 'Music', so I assume I need an x were the s is in 'Download'  but 'sudo chmod 777 Download' has no effect (no error either).

 

root@Tower:/mnt/user# ls -l

total 16

drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users  34 Mar  4  2015 Docker/

drwsrwsrwx 1 nobody users 4096 Oct 19 17:21 Download/

drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users    6 Jul  1 12:38 Movies/

drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 8192 Oct 19 16:17 Music/

drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users    6 Mar 24  2015 TV/

drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users  19 May 21 12:05 VM/

 

I'm getting ready to blow this server up to add some larger drives (it only has 4x40G data drives in  now....) as it was only intended to be a test server at the beginning.  I found that I like listening to music at work & need a dump.  Might as well have a DL server as well...I'll make all the shares 'public' this time.

 

Are you sure you know what user Windows is using to access unRAID? Go to Control Panel - Credential Manager and delete any unRAID credentials so they can be renegotiated. You might also go to Windows Command Prompt and

net use * /delete

Are you sure you know what user Windows is using to access unRAID? Go to Control Panel - Credential Manager and delete any unRAID credentials so they can be renegotiated. You might also go to Windows Command Prompt and

net use * /delete

 

I didn't know such a thing existed.  did the net use * /delete a couple times, but it's working after deleting all credentials & rebooting server/client(s), at least for now (as I said, it used to work sometimes after a reboot of server or client).

 

Muchas Gracias.