new to this device and used to working within windows 7 interface.
Cannot find a step-by-step solution to the file access issue within this post (Folder permissions)
I’m capable but not massively tech-savvy and these look like command line commands - so patience please
Basically when I try to move & access files it’s telling me that I need rights to access even though I’m logged in as admin to the mapped drive. Properties is telling me the owner is Unix User\root
Have you read the My Cloud User Manual (https://support.wdc.com/product.aspx?ID=904) to learn about how User and Share permissions are set using the My Cloud Dashboard? Files inherit their permissions from the Share permission setting in the Dashboard.
Yes, they are linux commands, issued by logging in via SSH. Enable SSH in the Dashboard, then install and run PuTTY, and connect to your mycloud via port 22 of its IP address.
ps. Be careful what you do under SSH, especially logged in as root. ‘With great power comes great responsibility’…
SSH enabled.
PuTTY downloaded
Connecting to unit via port 22 - returning a connection refused - yet I can access the WD interface via web browser using the IP
You should really use the Dashboard to set Public access to shares.
Note that access control cannot be controlled below share level; you cannot change access rights to folders within a share.
Also, don’t forget that Windows is seeing the SMB file server. Not the raw file system. So you don’t have control over access rights from Windows like you do with a simple HDD.
For some reason, the group permissions for ‘nobody’ owned files look a bit screwed up.
‘nobody’ seems to be the owner used by WD to support their access control overlay provided by the Dashboard share access control. But group would normally be rwx, not r-x… I might be tempted to chmod them to recursivly set the group write access. Maybe a job for WinSCP…
It looks like you have two users; admin and acr1987
Yep, the admin account moved some files into that share.
Using the WinSCP - I can set the ownership in there. You want recursively?
check all boxes for permissions?