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v8r · 2010-09-27 06:22:51

hi all,

had my dns for a while now and recently i got a new 2tb drive.. after some research, i cp'd everything from my previous drives into the new one just fine, but now i dont have permission to write to the new drive at all, from any of my windows machines. can read fine, just cant write at all to the drive.

after some reading i gather that somewhere along the line the file permissions have changed from whatever they are to being root only. to make everything work again, i take it i need to run a variation of " chown -r " over the drive, but i dont want to screw it up, so felt it better to ask advice first. can anyone tell me the user i need to specify for a standard out of the box DNS? I dont use any specific users (ie: shares are setup for "all accounts" in the DLink GUI), its pretty well vanilla apart from ffp just for telnet access.

cheers,
Joel

FunFiler · 2010-09-27 10:06:44

Issue the command 'chown -R nobody:501 /mnt/HD_a2/*'

Repeat for the second drive HD_b2 if installed

v8r · 2010-09-27 11:11:56

thanks for that.. i had some time up my sleeve this arvo and did some searching..
I ended up issuing ' chmod -r 777 * ' from within /mnt/HD_b2 (the drive with the troublesome files / folders)

prior to this, i had ' rwxr-xr-x ' on all files on the drive, now i have ' rwxrwxrwx ' and things seem to be working as planned.. do let me know if this may cause dramas, because my 'nix knowledge is rudimentry at best

FunFiler · 2010-09-27 13:38:38

It is more or less the same thing.

My idea was to assign the ownership of the files to "nobody" which would result in them using the 'rwx------' portion of the permissions.

Your way, you assigned all (777) permissions to all users and groups but left the ownership the same.

Down the road you may need to fix things up a bit as you may run into issues with directories in particular, but you may be ok.

Just to be 100% sure you don't have problems, I'd suggest doing BOTH (no need to reset the permissions scine you've already done it but you may want to fix the ownership).

v8r · 2010-09-28 04:17:01

awesome, thanks for that info.. will run the other command as well just to be sure

Last edited by v8r (2010-09-28 04:18:09)

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ownership problens after cp 'ing everything from old drive to new

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