I have problems with my Unraid permissions

[Reikasa_]

I currently have a problem with my new Unraid server.
When I try to move / delete things on my share through my windows computer signed in as admin with read/write access to the share, it says I need permissions of user \nobody to do that.
I understand that that is the default user of unraid.
The data I am talking about was transferred on the server through Krusaders synchronization tool from my old NAS over the network. From what I read so far that could have been the issue.
Solutions I found so far did not work tho.

 

I also can't delete the files through the Krusader GUI. I had to go into the command line to delete the files.
I already ran both the common problems plugin and the new permissions plugin on all disks and shares.
All permissions seem to be managed how I need them as well.

Now I'm kinda clueless as to what to try next so every help is greatly appreciated!
Cheers

[Master Disaster]

Have you verified file ownership is on the new NAS user and not the old one? Do you have SSH?

[Reikasa_]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Have you verified file ownership is on the new NAS user and not the old one? Do you have SSH?

If I navigate to the files through windows it shows me Tower/nobody as owner of the files.
SSH is enabled, but I'm not sure I am using it to be honest. How would I go about checking that?

Thanks for the help!!

[Master Disaster]

56 minutes ago, Reikasa_ said:

If I navigate to the files through windows it shows me Tower/nobody as owner of the files.
SSH is enabled, but I'm not sure I am using it to be honest. How would I go about checking that?

Thanks for the help!!

First you need to get SSH connected and verify you can login as the administrator.

 

Download Putty and run it, enter the IP address of your NAS into the Hostname box and click Open. The first thing that should happen is a certificate warning, just click Yes/OK and it should connect and ask you to login. Login with the administrator username and password then to verify you actually have root permissions enter sudo su (it'll probably ask you to re-enter your password, this is the same one you logged in with). If all that works then post back, if it fails take a screenshot of the terminal window and post it.

[Reikasa_]

14 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

First you need to get SSH connected and verify you can login as the administrator.

 

Download Putty and run it, enter the IP address of your NAS into the Hostname box and click Open. The first thing that should happen is a certificate warning, just click Yes/OK and it should connect and ask you to login. Login with the administrator username and password then to verify you actually have root permissions enter sudo su (it'll probably ask you to re-enter your password, this is the same one you logged in with). If all that works then post back, if it fails take a screenshot of the terminal window and post it.

it seemed to work without any problems. I didn't have to retype the password. 
I'm now connected with the Unraid server.

(attached putty window)

[Master Disaster]

30 minutes ago, Reikasa_ said:

it seemed to work without any problems. I didn't have to retype the password. 
I'm now connected with the Unraid server.

(attached putty window)

Hmm, well on further investigation it seems as though you shouldn't mess with permissions through terminal on Unraid so I'm going to suggest you stop, head over to Unraids support forums and ask for help over there.

 

I'm very familiar with Linux but not Unraid specifically and since there's a real chance of data loss if something goes wrong I don't feel confident giving you further instructions. Best to ask people who know what is good and bad practice.

[Reikasa_]

9 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Hmm, well on further investigation it seems as though you shouldn't mess with permissions through terminal on Unraid so I'm going to suggest you stop, head over to Unraids support forums and ask for help over there.

 

I'm very familiar with Linux but not Unraid specifically and since there's a real chance of data loss if something goes wrong I don't feel confident giving you further instructions. Best to ask people who know what is good and bad practice.

Ok thank you for taking the time tho! Very much appreciated

[Jarsky]

You should create users for accessing your files, not using the default root user.

 

In UnRAID under Users, you can add a user. 

Then go into Shares, click on the share you want to work with. 

Scroll to the bottom to SMB User Access, and give the user the Read/Write access to be able to modify. 

 

Then mount the share with your user. 

You can do this through "Map network drive" and "Connect using different credentials" 

 

Or you can run this in CMD Prompt. 

net use <driveletter>: \\tower\<sharename> /USER:tower\<username> <password> /PERSISTENT:YES

So mine might look like this 

net use Z: \\tower\jarskyshare /USER:tower\jarsky mybestpassword /PERSISTENT:YES

 

Keep in mind with Windows, you can only mount under 1 username at a time to the same hostname. 

So if you already have the share mapped as root, you need to Disconnect that first, before mapping as your user. Or it will still be using the root credentials.