Applying permissons to local accounts with root - Linkstation Live

[craighigg]

Hi,

I use my LS Live 4TB as a backup device and have created a "Backup" account from which the master device connects as. The backup has worked fine for many months but when I connect to the Buffalo drive as user "Backup" to try access the content, I can see all folders except 2 which are 3 levels down and gives an "Access Denied" error even though I know the content is on there (due to the total amount of storage being reported for the whole device is that it's nearly full and that these 2 folders take up about 80% of the total). I try connecting as Admin but then I can only see the first tier of folders and get the "Access Denied" for every folder. I suspect all I need to do is re-apply read/write rights to either "Admin" or "Backup" as root to all folders and subfolders but I don't know how to do it. I'm a beginner at best with Linux commands so would need some step-by-step/idiot proof assistance of how to do it; I have the latest Putty installed to connect on my Windows 7 PC if that's the terminal of choice. In the event my guess isn't correct, does anyone know another way to apply read/write rights to a local account to all folders and subfolders (I tried using the admin tool to set restrictions but that didn't make any difference).

Steer much appreciated.

Regards

Craig Higgins

[Eastmarch]

First, make sure you are running the latest Firmware, 1.65 as of this post, provided you are referring to to LS-X and not the LS-CHL (both were called a Linkstation Live, 1.60 is the latest for that one but I think it was max 2TB).

The next thing I would do is create a test user and apply permissions to that share for that user and then test.

If a new user can connect, then you just delete and recreate your backup user. This is all done in the web console for the linkstation, all you do is put the IP address of the device into a browser window and log in.

These NAS devices don't support subfolder access rights, the share itself has the only enforced rights for all files and subfolders. If you are still having issues, remove all access permissions from all shares (uncheck the box inside share properties) and then see if you can get to those folders, and then re-add permissions until it fails or works again.

[craighigg]

Thanks for the reply.

To add a couple of more specifics.

- Sorry, got the initial model incorrect, the model is Buffalo Linkstation Pro-Duo LS-WV4.0TL/R1-EU
- I've attached various screen prints of the Admin Console (I'll attach Explorer View and NASNavigator screen prints to reply threads due to attachment size limitations) so you can see if there's anything glaringly obvious
- Upgraded to latest FW version, v1.65
- As you can see, the shared folder I created is called "Backup" of which all other folders are a subfolder (multi-level) of.
-  Tried giving hdusers local group read/write access to the "Backup" shared folder and created a new user called "test" and made a member of hdusers. Also gave user "Test" read/write access. When I connected as "Test" I still have the same issue (ie I can't connect to the "Photos folder"; Music I can oddly)
- Not too sure I want to delete all accounts just yet since if there is something strange going on with the drive currently Backup and Test are the only users that can access most of the content (except the two I'm trying to access).

There were folder level/user security setup on the remote NAS so is it possible that somehow the security has copied across or in some way not gone across correctly; that would explain why I can see the contents of the Music folder (which had all user access) and the other had local user accounts (native to the remote drive) with write access; worth mentioning that all users had read access though. You can see why I think it seems like it needs root to re-apply the Unix permissions to one of the local device users.... unless there's something else I can try?

Help much appreciated.

Regards

Craig

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[craighigg]

NASNavigator screen print

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Explorer View screen print

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