Hello,

 

I'm trying to figure out how to setup permissions for my SMB shares so that the following occurs:

 

1. The share can be accessable to anyone in READ-ONLY permissions.  You don't get prompted for a username and password

2. The share can be accessable to a specific user with READ/WRITE permissions.

3. The share shows up to anyone on the local network from the network neighborhood

 

I can't seem to figure out how to do this.  I want my kids to be able to access my movie shares but only have read-only access.  I don't want them to accidently delete anything by mistake.  I want to have it so my system has access to the movie shares wiht a specified username and have full control.

 

Is this possible with unRAID?

 

Regards,

Scott

1. The share can be accessable to anyone in READ-ONLY permissions.  You don't get prompted for a username and password

the first part is easy as you can enable user shares and user level security.  From there you can set up a user to have read-only access.  The second part is a little hard and your best bet may be to do some google searching for "SMB anon user" or something to that effect.

2. The share can be accessable to a specific user with READ/WRITE permissions.

Again, enable user shares and user level security and add the user you want to have read/write access to the "exceptions" list

 

3. The share shows up to anyone on the local network from the network neighborhood

Enable the unRAID machine to be the local master on your network and when anyone goes to the network neighborhood it should show up there.

 

I can't seem to figure out how to do this.  I want my kids to be able to access my movie shares but only have read-only access.  I don't want them to accidently delete anything by mistake.  I want to have it so my system has access to the movie shares wiht a specified username and have full control.

 

Is this possible with unRAID?

 

Regards,

Scott

Well I don't know what I'm doing wrong because its not working the way the manual says its supose to.

 

I have the following settings:

 

User shares: Enabled

 

Share name: Movies

Export (SMB): Export read-only

Exceptions: ssumner

Valid users: (blank)

Invalid users: (blank)

Export (NFS): (blank)

 

I can hit the share without using my ssumner account and create and remove files even though I shouldn't be able to.  Am I missing something here?  I'm running 4.5.1

 

Regards,

Scott

 

Well I don't know what I'm doing wrong because its not working the way the manual says its supose to.

 

I have the following settings:

 

User shares: Enabled

 

Share name: Movies

Export (SMB): Export read-only

Exceptions: ssumner

Valid users: (blank)

Invalid users: (blank)

Export (NFS): (blank)

 

I can hit the share without using my ssumner account and create and remove files even though I shouldn't be able to.  Am I missing something here?  I'm running 4.5.1

 

Regards,

Scott

 

The exception probably indicated instead of read only, as you have the permissions set for most users, ssumner has read-write permissions.  It does not indicate no permissions

This is what I do, and it ends up producing your same desired results:

 

Enable user level security.  Create two accounts, 'admin' and 'guest'.  Give the 'admin' account a password, leave the 'guest' account without one.  (leave the default 'root' account as it is, unless you want to add a password to your web management page)

 

For each user share, choose 'export read-only' and add in 'admin' as the only exception.  Leave every other field blank/default.

 

On your computer, log in as 'admin' with your password.  You can choose to save the password so that you don't have to type it in each time, if you wish.  Or don't, if you want your files to be more secure.

 

On your kid's computer and on any other read-only devices, such as an HTPC, log in as 'guest' (with no password).  Again, set the computer to remember the login info so that it doesn't have to be typed in each time.

 

That should do it.