DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

ThatEvilGuy wrote:

Hi,

I have my hdd partitioned like this(not counting the OS partition): Data, Audio, Video, Pictures.

How can I mirror the exact same setting on DNS-323? can you partition the drives after you've formatted them?

Yes & no - partitioning is the step prior to formatting, and if you re-partition, you need to reformat afterwards.

The DNS-323, out of the box, does not allow custom partitioning such as yours, you may be able to achieve it by getting creative either with fun_plug or partitioning the drives outside of the unit and then re-installing them.

No - not all NAS servers are like that - I can't comment on the QNAP unit.

Personally - the only problem I see with a single large partition is the possibility of one folder growing to the point where it fills the partition, a problem which (at least in my opinion) is better managed through quotas.

Also - I wasn't aware that having users from more than one group assigned to a folder was a problem that needed to be fixed.   I would consider this to be a normal and in fact desirable feature - as an example ....

Let's say I'm running a small business and I have chosen to group my users in to 1) Field Tech Support and 2) Phone Tech Support - if I had a folder called manuals (containing manuals) I would want both groups to have access to it.

Prior to this discussion I had not used either users or groups with my DNS-323 - so I created two groups and a couple of users and assigned one each to the groups, I created a folder and assigned it to one group read only, and the other group read/write.

The end results were not quite as expected - in that the DNS-323 created two shares with different names - Manuals and Manuals-1 - however, my users had the appropriate access rights in the shares.

Seems to me like you're not familiar with how users & groups should be used.

1) Create your groups
2) Create your users and assign them to groups
3) Assign the folder to a group, with the appropriate access rights.

Whilst you can assign a folder to an individual user, this sort of negates the purpose of groups.

No - I created one folder - which the DNS-323 "exported" as two shares, if you like two - two shortcuts to the same folder, each one with different permissions.

Two different groups CAN share the same folder.

As for your question on a single group of users of different privileges - this is not how users and groups are used to manage access.  The group is given the access rights and you add/remove users from the group.

The DNS-323 appears to limit the number of groups a user can belong to, but this would appear to be more of an inconvenience than a problem, especially given the intended market.