I have a noobish question.  And all the other threads with this problem I have read seem to have very complicated problems and answers.  

 

I just want to be able to read and write to sub folders in the main SMB share with Windows ie. q:/Media/movies.   Just recently I moved my Plex server to a Windows rig (for video card), and Plex needs read write access on the all the sub folders in my media folder, it does not.   I created a new user gave it read/write and that did not work. 

I have some user named 'nobody' in windows, but can not add the read/write acess to that user with out an error. I even gave Windows my root user and that did not work either. 

 

This should not be a complicated problem...  and I can not figure it out

One thing to realize is that, with Unnraid,  SMB permissions are assigned to the entire share.  You can not assign separate permissions to sub-folders.

 

14 hours ago, Zenergy said:

I just want to be able to read and write to sub folders in the main SMB share with Windows ie. q:/Media/movies.   Just recently I moved my Plex server to a Windows rig (for video card), and Plex needs read write access on the all the sub folders in my media folder, it does not.   I created a new user gave it read/write and that did not work. 

I have some user named 'nobody' in windows, but can not add the read/write acess to that user with out an error. I even gave Windows my root user and that did not work either. 

 Are working with permissions on the Windows side or are you working with the Unraid via the    Shares  >>>  'Share_Name'   >>>  SMB Security Settings    ?

 

I would also like to refer you to this thread and subiquent postings that explains a lot of what 'happens' behind the scenes when logging onto SMB from Windows computers:

 

     https://forums.unraid.net/topic/25064-user-share-problem/?tab=comments#comment-228392

 

A couple of more things. 

1--  'root' is not a valid SMB user for security reasons!  

 

2--  Only a single user/client is allowed from each SMB client computer.  If you attempt to add a second user, you will get a very cryptic error message from Windows!

 

3-- Any attempt to access any SMB share on the server will result a user/client login to that server!