Part of my Unraid server is used to store all of our family photo's. The thing that worries me is the wife and daughter also go into it to look at and use the photo's and I am worried about one of the unknowingly deleting or modifing a photo when they are cropping them to print. So what is the best way to go about protecting the files? I tried the read only for the disk but then I have to change that every time I want to upload new pictures, and changing it doesn't seem to be instant, takes time to register.

 

What I want to be able to do:

Read

Copy

Write

 

What I want to block:

Delete

Modify

Hi Mopar -

 

If you have PLUS version of unRAID, then you can create three different users. For example: dad, mom, daughter.

 

Then on the share you want to protect, you can set the EXPORT drop down to:

Export: Read only

Exception: dad

Valid Users: dad,mom,daughter

 

That should do the trick, but please make sure you are at least running the PLUS version of unRAID. Free version does not support user level.

 

Hope that helps!!!

 

Sagun

If you have the free version, how about making the user shares read only and make the disk shares read, write and hidden. So when you need to update, go to the disk shares directly, but others can use the user shares.

Hi Mopar -

 

If you have PLUS version of unRAID, then you can create three different users. For example: dad, mom, daughter.

 

Then on the share you want to protect, you can set the EXPORT drop down to:

Export: Read only

Exception: dad

Valid Users: dad,mom,daughter

 

That should do the trick, but please make sure you are at least running the PLUS version of unRAID. Free version does not support user level.

 

Hope that helps!!!

 

Sagun

 

Guess I will have to look into that some more to see how it all works, I stopped using user shares long ago because I feel I have better control just putting things on the disk I want. Also I am not sure how the individual users work, we only have one logon on our Windows machine for everyone, not a seperate account for each person. I will have to try some things out this week end.

Do you all share a single computer when accessing the shares or does each family member access the unraid shares from their own individual computer?

 

If you all share a single computer then you'll need to map/unmap shares (log on as a different user) on the computer depending on who is using it at the time.

 

If each person has their own computer then they would simply map the shares to their user account and you will need to grant each user the correct read/write/modify permissions on the unraid server.

 

 

It is all one computer, and some times the lap top.

 

We do have seperate users on the computer but most of the time it is just logged in on mine any way and everyone uses it.

 

Guess their is no easy answer to this.

Easiest way might be to make all your user-shares read-only, and to export your "disk" shares as hidden/read-write.

 

You must then use the disk shares to write/change the files, but family members can play music/movies, etc.  The "disk" shares will not show in file-explorer.  You'll need to type \\tower\disk1\  to get to them.

 

Joe L.