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i have a computer running linuxmint. i want to be able to access its files from my windows 10 pro computer. i decided to use samba. i used this guide and this video to help me setup samba. setup seemed to work fine. i then tried to access the files from windows by typing in \\{linuxcompip}\share in windows file manager. it then asked me to login so i typed in the name and password i setup but then it tells me that windows cant access the files. on this form someone had a different issue i did, but i thought that it was similar enough that i could try it. (bad mistake), i tried this fix and now when i type \\{linuxcompip}\share again, but this time it doesn't ask me for a password, it just straight up tells me i don't have permission to access the files. i didn't like that my files were not password protected, so i tried to reverse what the form told me to do, but i wasn't successful. anyone here who knows what i should look at to see what the problem is?

I was playing Valorant yesterday. As the match was starting I swiped across my keyboard hitting possibly close to every key. Immediately after, the game stopped responding and crashed. Now, I'm unable to run just about anything. In order to open anything without it crashing I have to run it as administrator, which is a huge inconvenience. When I tried to open Valorant straight from the file directory it tells me "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I am the system administrator, how can I not have the permissions to open my apps? I tried running the built in windows troubleshooter and that crashes at launch too. I tried looking online but I honestly don't even know how to describe the problem properly to find a solution. Any assistance is greatly appreciated! I feel like it's some button combination I accidentally did (which will probably be a simple fix), but I have no clue how to resolve this. Edit: Running as admin doesn't always allow me to launch apps. They still often crash at launch.

I am trying to setup a NAS system on an RPi with Samba (unfortunately I haven't gotten that far yet) using this guide. I got to the sudo chown -R pi /media/pi/MyExternalDrive part before running into an issue saying the drive didn't exist. I looked in mount -l and saw that my drive failed to automagically mount after a reboot. I manually mounted it to the /media/pi/ location and tried the command again. It said: chown: cannot access '/media/pi/MyExternalDrive': No such file or directory I checked both mount -l and mount|grep ^/dev and both said that the drive was mounted to /media/pi. /dev/sda1 on /media/pi type ext4 (rw,relatime) I also tried chmod: sudo chmod -R a+rwX /media/pi/MyExternalDrive Same response but "chmod" and not "chown". Running ls in /media/pi yields nothing. Help is appreciated!

Hi there, My system has been green screening over and over with no chance in getting access to the files and backing them up so I bought a new SSD and installed Win11 on it to then bulk transfer the data to my new drive. The problem is that when I try and copy a folder over to the new drive nothing happens and when I transfer a file, I get the error displayed in "unknown.png" I figured this is a permissions issue so I tried to change the drive's permissions and when I wen to look I noticed that the owner was "TrustedInstaller". This makes sense since I attempted to reset my old OS once to see if that could help with the green screen issue. So I changed the ownership to my new Administrators account and when I confirmed (with the "Replace all child object permission entries" option checked) I got the erros described in unknown(1).png and unknown(2).png. At this point I'm running out of ideas. Can anyone help me out?

Hello everyone. I've been recently trying to set up a samba server for home file sharing. I'm trying to create a share that my whole family can access and write to, even if the file or directory isn't owned by them. For some reason Samba is ignoring my config (unless I did something wrong) and it is creating new directories with a 0750 permission, meaning that only the creator of the directory can put files in it. Any help would be appreciated, below is my samba config.

Hi everyone, I can't install Quickbooks on a local client. Can someone refresh me how to update permissions to do so? Thank you

Hey guys, I've tried asking on the Microsoft forums but I haven't gotten anywhere, so I thought I'd try this community as a fan of Linus' videos Just to clarify, I'm attempting this via onedrive.live.com. Basically I'd like to give a user view-access on the root folder and edit access over a certain sub-folder which I thought would be pretty simple, but nope. If I add a user with view-access on the root folder and then change the user's permission on a sub-folder to 'edit' access, it also erroneously changes their permission on the root folder to edit (and therefore all other sub-folders/files). The other method I've tried is instead of changing the existing entry's permission on the sub-folder, adding the user a second time but with edit access - this also changes the other entry's access to edit, meaning that the issue is still present. Does anyone know how I can give a single user different permissions on different folders?

Hello, I've looked around, asked my provider and contacted a lot of people in order to try and identify the problem to my issue. I play a lot of League of Legends, and after switching Internet Providers, I have come across a very strange issue, everytime I start up a game for the first time of the day. ( 5PM ish ). I play for around 10 - 15 minutes, and suddenly my internet will disconnect, causing everyone in my home to lose internet access, and I have to restart the router to bring it back to life. League of Legends is the only game which is causing this issue. This happens everyday, so I have to normally play another mode, such as ARAM, in order to disconnect, then restart the router. After restarting the router, it's completely fine for the rest of the night. I get logs in my Event Logger on my router all the time, informing me that my router is blocking IP's and TCP IP's. Or something along those lines. I have gone through, my service provider has done something, which is apparently changing my Access Rack, I have tried a new router, I have set up my permissions exactly as Riot Games and my provider has stated, yet I still get this issue, has anyone had this problem before? TL;DR First game of the day around 5PM, I get 10 minutes into my game, and the internet goes down for every device in the house, a restart is needed to get the internet back up. After the restart, the game works perfectly for the rest of the night. but continues to do it the very next day. Thank you

Hey all, Bought a cheap-ish SSD (120gb Crucial BX500) Installed Pop-os (had to do twice cos I accidentally deleted the Gnome GUI in package manager ?) & installed all the system updates etc ... Dam its responsive & fast! ? But I got a few problems that are causing big issues. TLDR - Cant copy/create files to other internal HDD`s ? 1 > I installed "Timeshift" so I could take a snapshot (just in case I did something stupid like the above) ... I ran the wizard & the program & now have the "snapshot" in my "computer" folder ( the same folder where the boot, Bin & root folders are ( I would put the path up but I cannot figure out how to make it show )) This is where my issue comes in - whenever I try to copy these to anywhere on my pc that "IS NOT" on this SSD .. I get permission or read-only errors From within Timeshift - If i hit browse it shows me the folder where the snapshot files are contained, I then go back a few directories to find the "snap-shot folder", I then right click and select "copy to" ... I select a partition on a separate HDD that is formatted to the "ext4" format ... and it starts to copy ... however b4 it ends I get this error .. ( the same happens if i drag and drop the folder ) So atm I have a snapshot on the boot drive that I cannot copy to any other part of my system (including usb`s) 2 > The second issue for me is that I cannot get steam to install the games on my "linux games" drive as the drive has a "lost+found" folder on it .... I got around this on my last install of POP OS on a separate 80gb HDD, by just creating a new folder in the drive called "steam" which allowed me to direct steam to it once I had mounted the drive. This time however ... I can mount the drive no probs but I cannot create a folder within it as the option is greyed out? I read that this is all to do with permissions again but I haven't done anything different to my 1st run of POP OS apart from install it on a SSD - So im baffled -In Gparted the "linux games" drive shows that it has no flags selected (I dont know if this makes a difference)? -In "Disks" it says the drive is mounted & running in "Ext4" of which most pages on the net suggest that is the format needed to fix permission problems? I have added other screenshots just in case One things that is confusing me (and might be the problem) is that even tho I have the drive mounted there a "zzz" icon next to the drive I am having issues with comes up every now n then? The folder u can see is a failed copy of the Timeshift saved state files - So in my head, It can create files to that drive - it just wont allow me to do it personally As I mentioned b4, I did get this setup to work when I installed POP on a 80gb HDD about 2 days ago ... so I'm totally baffled again As you can see in the pics - I am running out of SSD space due to me using it to test other features - But I would prefer to keep this SSD purely for POP in the future. I kinda knew that I would be facing a few challenges when moving over to linux ... but this permission issue ... I dont get it .. why does it set the system up without giving the "actual" user basic permissions? Is it just a security thing? If you got this far .. thx for reading & hopefully you can help too ;D

Just a quick question, because I seem to be to stupid to figure this out by myself or find anything useful on the internet about this. Following situation: - I have a folder that I would like to share to the network on my Win10 machine. - I have a Win7 machine in the same network that needs to access this folder. - I want to give writing permissions of this folder only to a specified account on the Win7 machine and not for "Everyone" (as I could do, but don't want to). - But when I try to add the Win7 account to the sharing permissions on my Win10 folder, it just tells me that it can not find this account. (Neither with "\\Win7Domain\User" or "User@Win7Domain") - And if I try to find the user with the built-in windows search, it only finds the accounts on my Win10 Machine, because I am unable to change the search path to my Win7 Domain. So... How do I do this? How do I tell it to give permissions to a user on another machine? Sorry if this is a bit confusing. I can add screenshots if any of you would like to have some to better understand what I'm actually talking about. Thanks in advance!

Hello, I'm doing a bit of work on an SFTP server as my way of noodling around with Linux for the first time! I'm having fun with it so far, but I ran into a bit of trouble. I have a handful of users and groups, and I'm trying to get them exclusive permissions to their namesake directories on a USB hard drive. Directories are all set on the hard drive, groups are arranged how I want them. I'm just wondering how I address specific groups when I give them permissions for directories. So far I found: sudo chmod g+rwx /media/pi/PiCloud/guest I understand that this gives the group read, write, and execute permissions to that directory, which is what I want, but how do I specify which group I'm granting that to? I want to give group "guest" the above permissions. In case it's important, I'll list all users and groups bellow: User: pi --belongs to groups: pi, morgan, jordan, ryan, administration, eryn, guest User: jordan --belongs to groups: administration, guest, jordan User: eryn --belongs to groups: eryn, guest User: morgan --belongs to groups: morgan, guest User: ryan --belongs to groups: ryan, guest User: guest --belongs to group: guest I have folders in my hard drive called: Administration Eryn Guest Jordan Morgan Ryan So I'm trying to get each user/group permission to rwx their name-sake directories, but I as pi need to be able to have access too. Is it possible to do this with the above example, or am I way off base? If I haven't triggered you too hard with my sheer ignorance, I'd really appreciate some pointers! Thanks, and let me know if you need more clarification.

Hello I have a problem on ubuntu server with group and owner permissions of a directory I have 3 users mat,Brandon,kylian I have the folders /servers/mmtp /servers/Brandon Now I set the home directory from mat to /servers/mmtp and the home directory from Brandon to /servers/Brandon I also made the groups mmtp and Brandon I have set the folder /servers/mmtp to owner kylian and group mmtp same for the /servers/Brandon owner is kylian and group is Brandon wen ever I set the permissions from these 2 directory's to 0755 both users can access edit and delete all files in each directory I want it so kylian can access everything and mat can access /servers/mmtp and Brandon /servers/Brandon but not each others folder setting permissions 0755 will allow them to both edit the directory even though the groups and owner are correctly set

I recently built a desktop after only using a laptop for a few years. I wanted to transfer some files and figured the fastest way would be to connect my laptop's hard drive to the desktop. After clicking some admin "proceed" button I was indeed able to access my files (to be clear I did not modify any files while connected to my desktop, just copy). However when I put the drive back in my laptop, problems arose... My autohotkey scripts don't work anymore, firefox can only startup when I run it as admin, chrome and some other programs don't start up at all and some files are just inaccesible from my laptop now. Other than I needed admin rights to access even my downloads folder (also appdata and many more). Anyway, me and my friend concluded that I, on my desktop, took permissions away from myself (?), and may have tranferred the ownership of my files (not sure how that works exactly). I have a already tried some things including a system restore, which failed, and I now don't really know what to do next or where to look for other options. Hence this forum post. Is there any way to give permission for accessing all files at once? Some way to tranfer back the file ownership (or whatever it is)? Any help would be greatly appreciated! By the way I'm on the latest version of windows 10 and my laptop is the Asus GL552VW, the boot drive of which is the drive in question.

I have created and shared a folder on my server called “Finance”. I have also created a domain local security group called “FinancGroup”. I have set the permissions to only share with the aforementioned security group, given administrators, domain admin, and system full control, and FinanceGroup, has read and change. The FinanceGroup also has Modify, Read & Execute, List folder contents, read, and write. I have created two test users, Test (which is in the security group), and Test2 (which is not in the security group. My issue is that they both can see the folder, although the one that isn’t in the security group cannot open said folder. I want it so that only those in the security group can even see the folder. For everyone else it shouldn’t even be listed. I have already enabled access-based enumeration as well. For the life of me though, I cannot seem to get this to work. I have discovered that if I share only to the FinanceGroup security group, then only the members of that group have access, as it should be, but the moment I add Administrators and Domain Admins to the share, all users somehow have access to the share. Please help!

so ever since the windows update that deleted the files of a lot of windows users, i've been having issues with my version of windows removing write permission of my main drive for all users at random. the first time i realized this was when i wanted to move a game i had downloaded on my D: drive to my C: drive. steam gave me a notification saying that the drive had to be writeable. i checked permissions, and saw that for some reason, every single group only had the read, read & execute, and list folder contents permission enabled. i re-enabled the permissions back to how they were, but after a few days, it reset again. this happened thrice as of now to me, and it's getting annoying

Hello, I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 in dual boot with Windows 10. The way I have my setup configured is there's an SSD with both Windows and Ubuntu operating systems and a second drive with all my data on it, such as downloads and documents, etc. The disk is partitioned under NTFS scheme. Firstly, I was interested in simply mounting that drive automatically on boot, which I managed by going to disks > selecting the drive > edit mount options > mount at startup. However, a few days afterwards I found myself unable to edit any of the files in the mounted disk. The New Folder and Paste options are grayed out, I can neither save any new file nor edit previous ones. The user permissions showed the files belonging to "root" and so kept me from changing anything. After disabling auto-mount, the file permissions show my username instead of root now but I still can't edit anything. I have tried numerous solutions, many even successfully, but things revert back to same in a few days for no apparent reason. I would really like to know what's the issue here and how it can be fixed. Thanks! Update: Disabling fast startup allows for modifying the files, but they are still associated with root user. However, I would appreciate a workaround whereby I don't have to disable that option.

Hello, So the problem is a bit elaborate, Firstly , I cannot save any files like .txt , .py, from any editor in anywhere in any C:\ locations except my user locations. (I can avoid this problem by running the particular editor as admin). When I went to give Full control of C:\ drive to my user, it showed another error like this, By the way my local account is an administrator account, I am using a prebuilt windows 10 Home single language installed by OEM. I was using my microsoft account as a user but now I am running a local user. Onto the main problem then, Although I can install Python3 in the program files, I cannot save anything there and no other apps like (Jupyter Notebook of Python Extension in VS Code) can access it. So I had to install it in my users AppData\Local\Programs and add the location to PATH. Still after doing that , I am getting this error message on Jupyter Notebook, I am hoping to get any help I can. In my previous laptop of same windows version , it worked fine. Windows version, 2004. Thanks in advance.

so i made a new user george then i went i enabled samba. after that, i changed the samba permissions on my share so that user George has read and write access but when i try to log in from windows i get btw i am sure the password is correct. i changed it aswell again just to be sure and i still get this error what am i doing wrong? @Electronics Wizardy

I know this might be a strange one but I think my friend went and removed the permissions for the realtek audio driver to stop it auto reinstalling, They now want to reinstall the driver once more and they are getting access denied even when using admin. I tryed to help but I am not 100% sure how to go about fixing it any people would be much appreciated

For some reason, whenever I try to access certain files it keeps asking me to confirm admin permission or something, even though it is files one normally should be able to access. And an even bigger problem is, the windows search is not working. At all. It doesn't find a single file. I recently did a clean install of my system. Before, I had my W7 on a HDD but now I installed W10 on an SSD. When I first made my account on W10, I believe everything was working fine. Then I decided to format the HDD with W7 on it to use as storage. It works just fine.. however, after I did that, I've been running into these really weird issues with permissions mentioned above, an I'm not sure whether it is because of what I did. Anyway, I did the sfc scan, it found a problem but could not fix it. I also did the Search and Indexing troubleshooting and got "Incorrect permissions on Windows Search directories" Could not fix issue. I tried to do an index rebuild, but nothing, and Microsoft told me to run DISM... but no luck there either. So I went to my folders and took at look at the permissions for a random folder... and indeed: Neither system or admins have permission to the program files folder. And even worse is, I tried to change the permissions but everything was grayed out and it wouldn't let me.. even though I am admin. And even if it would let me change the permissions... This isn't just one folder we're talking about. It's like, everything. All files on both C (system) and D (storage) drive. What do I do?

Hi Everyone! Here is a "short" introduction of what i already have for mi Server. ************************* INTRODUCTION ************************* 1- Sorry for my English, it's not my native language! 2- I have already bought and asembled the Hardware of my Server, here it's the parts list: Motherboard + CPU: Biostar A68n-5545 + AMD A8-5545 Quad Core (Base 1.7Ghz - Turbo 2.7Ghz). RAM: 2x Hyper X Fury 8Gb 1866Mhz (I know it's overkill but i had them for free). CASE: Riotoro Cr280 Mini Itx. HDD: 3x WD Red 4Tb & 1x WD Blue 1Tb. PSU: Thermaltake Tr2 500 500w. 3- I already had this OS's available for use: Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. Windows Server 2016 Essentials. Windows 10 (Multiple Editions). Windows Server 2016 Nano. Ubuntu (All Versions). UnRaid. 4- Devices to connect: 4 Smartphones (1 iPhone 6s Plus and 3 Android Devices) 2 Tablets (1 iPad Mini 2 + Xperia Tablet Z2) 3 Smart TV's (All Samsung) 5 PC (3 Notebooks + 2 Desktop) ************************* WHAT I NEED TO ACHIEVE ************************* I need a File Sharing Server over my LAN and a Multi Media Streaming Server. Easy Right? ... But No...At lease for my! The thing is... I want to Stream movies to my Smart TV's & Tablets and share files with all my other devices, but i want the ability to choose who can see and/or edit those files (Not the movies, i don't care about movies). I don't want to make a Domain Controller and create or migrate all user acounts to an Active Directory. This, unfortunately, is not an option. TL;DR: No Domain Controller with Active Directory. Ability to choose the level of access of the files. Ability to Stream Movies to my Smart TV's. No login required in any device. If Someone can help my with some ideas or solutions i would appreciate so much! Question -> How give permissions to users BY FILE, without creating a Domain Controller/Active Directory? Thanks!

I am setting up an Unraid Server (64TB) for the film department in my High School. It's all up and running. I have one main share for the whole server, along with Nextcloud running on top of it for a web GUI for files just connecting through different SMB directories (I have permissions for that all good). I want to have the following user permissions for the main share. I want to have an admin account (like teacher or special case students) that have access to everything in the main share and all of its subdirectories. I would like to have a few different users (general student ones) that can only access a specific sub-folder or a few of the sub folders. Preferably, I would like them to have zero read access as well to the folders they shouldn't be accessing. I know Unraid doesn't exactly support this, but I know SMB does. The Unraid way of doing this would be one user per share, but some people would need access to multiple shares that way, and it would be more confusing and a hassle for them to setup many shares, rather than just 1 main share. I am new to SMB shares, but I have read that you have to add stuff into the "smb-extra.conf" file. I have no idea how to format that or what I should put. How would I format and write out the extra config for SMB? Especially in terms of Unraid, as I am not sure if it is different. PS: I did set SMB to use SMB2, as the computers here require that to be a minimum for SMB access.

Hi, a few moths ago, I attached my internal hard drive to another computer to copy some files then reattached it to the original computer and then re installed windows on it. The files that I have copied were not opening, all the permissions were removed, I went to permissions tab and in advanced tab and added permissions to each and every file and folder one by one and the problem was solved then. Now in present, I again reinstalled windows and the same thing happens again with addition to the same problem on files that I created with my last windows. I am able to again give permissions to files but not to folders and with every windows installation it is getting pretty annoying. Hope you understand my problem. Every help is appreciated.

I changed the location of the document and such folders of the 2 users on this computer to the D drive. However the files from both user accounts could be accessed by anyone since they are now located in d instead of c. How can I correct the permissions on those folders so that only the appropriate user and admin could view those folder ?

Hi, recently I took my internal hard drive off from my computer and connected it in another computer via sata and copied some files from the second computer to my hard drive. After that I returned and reconnected my hard disk and then reinstalled the windows then the problem occurred, neither I am able to open those copied files and folder nor I am able delete them. Windows say you must have permissions for that. How to solve?! Thanks for every reply.