Say, for example, I have a share “q_alvar” that is configured as a read-write folder for user alvaro, but is read-only to all other users in the network. I want to have similar shares, named with a prefix “q_” followed by user name to be in a folder in the NAS, for example the share “Public” and the reason for putting them all in one Public folder is so that every user only has to map the Public folder on their desktop once and so has access to all the shares in the team of users, and putting them in one folder eliminates the need to have to map each individual q_ folder, because there’s going to be about 20 q_ folders, and there are not enough letters in the alphabet available in the mapping of network drives. They will be used like shares that are read-only to all except for the author user who gets read-write permission. So my question is, can this be done by moving [drag-and-dropping] the folders into the Public folder?
Generally folders/directories that are within a share inherit the permissions of the Share. Generally one cannot, via the My Cloud Dashboard, set permissions to subfolders within a Share.
If one has a multi bay My Cloud model they may want to see, using the forum search feature (magnifying glass icon top right), if there are any available workarounds in their model’s specific OS5 multi bay subforum. This subforum (My Cloud) generally deals with the OS5 single bay My Cloud which may have certain limitations not found on the OS5 multi bay models.
@jairowd
What does Public mean to you?
See User Manuals.
By default, the MyCloud system places a few commonly used folders, one is labeled Public. In the dashboard, one can change the permissions a particular user gets to a particular share folder. So imagine a share that everyone has access to, for example, Public folder, but within that share, there are folders (subfolders) or shares (subshares?) that I would like to set permissions that are more specific than merely full access to all users. For example, if I have the Public folder be accessible by everyone, but inside it, I have read-only folders that everyone can view, except that for each folder, only one person can edit (have read-write access) that particular folder.
Say, I have a set of sub-shares in Public consisting of q_john, q_jim, and q_jen whose authors are John, Jim, and Jennifer, respectively. So I want the authors to be users, so that user John has read-write access to q_john, Jim has read-write access to q_jim, and Jennifer has read-write access to q_jen. But I want John to have read-only access to the other shares not q_john, that is, read-only access to q_jim and q_hen. Same thing for Jim, to have read-only access to the others’ folders, and same for Jennifer. In that way, the author is assured that nobody else will edit his work, but others can browse the author’s share. I want those shares to reside inside a share that is normally read-write for everyone, but be able to set specific permissions to subfolders in that share. I am beginning to realize that it can’t be done from the dashboard.
Thank you, Bennor.
