My family are starting to use my VMs, so I need a fullproof way that will ensure they don't get the dreaded 'You require permission from nobody to make changes to this file" message - I can't keep running the New Permissions tool everyday.  Note: this is not a problem with CP or Sabnzbd - these are personal files.

 

 

I've read a post that seems to say the problem is because of different usernames between windows and Linux and the two getting confused about which username successfully accessed a folder.  Can someone please say what is the correct way to ensure that:

 

User X-1 in Windows can permanently access their User X-2 files in Unraid i.e. where the usernames across the two don't match, but both belong to the same person.

 

Thanks

I'm sharing how I finally solved this in case anyone else has this problem.

 

 

Solution:  delete all credentials from 'Windows Credentials' and then create unique usernames for each user in unRAID that aren't the same as Windows ones.

I'm sharing how I finally solved this in case anyone else has this problem.

 

 

Solution:  delete all credentials from 'Windows Credentials' and then create unique usernames for each user in unRAID that aren't the same as Windows ones.

 

So then you have your family members use the unRAID login credentials on the Windows machine to connect to your server?  I was thinking of doing this for my FireTV's and Popcorn Hour units so I can control access better.  I've also been reading up on ransomware and this has me a bit paranoid as well (i.e. using the same login with r/w permissions to my server).

See this thread for some insight into how this is supposed to work.

Thanks...that post explains a lot!

See this thread for some insight into how this is supposed to work.

 

 

I read that which gave me the inspiration to try unique usernames as the tips in the post didn't work for me.

On 10/24/2016 at 4:41 PM, trurl said:

See this thread for some insight into how this is supposed to work.

I tried logging out and back in again and it still doesn't work.

I am logged in with user george that has read and write permissions

Go to Windows Control Panel - Credential Manager and delete any Unraid credentials so they can be renegotiated.

 

Also, see this "sticky" pinned near the top of this same subforum for other ideas:

 

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/53172-windows-issues-with-unraid/

 

On 10/24/2016 at 5:41 AM, trurl said:

See this thread for some insight into how this is supposed to work.

How do i convert or find the linked threads.. a lot of my searching has dead ended because i can't go to the link... or are these links no longer applicable?