I have an extremely simple setup.  Only two 2 TB drives (one parity and one data).  When I initially setup the unraid server I didn't assign the parity drive until I transferred some data from a client PC to the server.  Once I finished transferring the data I assigned the parity drive and did a parity sync.  All was well.

 

However, now I go to delete some of the data on the server and it says I don't have permissions?  I copy and pasted the data from an additional drive from the client PC.  Users as well as any permissions on the unraid server are not enabled.  Even everything on the shares reflect export read/write.

 

Confused, I go back to the client PC to look at the data.  I can easily delete it there.  I then right-click and go to properties to check the permissions and notice the folders are reflected as read-only?  I check the syslog on the server and sure enough it reflects right there that the data can't be deleted because it is read-only.  After doing some research it appears the read-only state on the client PC is part of how Vista (not using Windows 7) now works.  It is a part of User Account Control and supposedly adds an additional layer of protection in Vista.  However, for the life of me nothing seems to allow me to change it and I'm not sure it is even possible on the client PC at least.

 

So has anyone else experienced this?  I have searched the forum here and can't find much surrounding it which sort of surprises me since I didn't think this issue would be exclusive to me, but I guess its possible.  Does anyone know a way of simply wiping the permissions clean on all the files and folders on a data drive to get me to a clean slate?

Somewhat resolved.  After a few hours of additional searching I did find something that worked.  I installed Total Commander and this allowed me to update the attributes of the files and folders.  The crazy things still reflected "read only" in Windows, but at least now I could delete the files and folders.

 

What I continue to not understand is what the source of this issue was.  Was it indeed the Windows based UAC read only issue?  If it was how am I the only one to be running in to this?  It isn't like these files and folders were on the C drive.  They resided on a completely different hard drive on the client.  Is everyone having to manually adjust attributes as I did when they look to delete something?  Of course you could do it as a batch once you initially transfer the files I guess.  

 

Addendum:  Now I'm probably more confused since transferring the same data in the same way I did before isn't exhibiting the same issue.  I am now apparently able to delete the same data if I transfer it again.  Very confusing.

using Midnight commander, i tried to correct permissions - some sucess,After correcting the permissions and user.... i can see the dir HOWEVER

MODE is STILL 40777 !!!! NOT 42777 as a"good" folder shows. WTF? I dont see anything to change to correct this.....

Im using AFP as my connection basis. Owner and Group are set same as good folder. RWX RWX RWX are permissions, same - but i see 40777 NOT 42777 as in good folder - how do i fix this?

Solution ended up being the extended permission settings - this can be changed using MC