OpenMediaVault Shared Folder Permissions

OpenMediaVault Shared Folder Permissions.
Want to grant different levels of access to a specific group of users, while everyone has read access? See how to leverage OpenMediaVault Groups in Shared Folder Permissions.
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[@ShotokuTech]

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[@PrinceWesterburg]

Thank you soooooo much!!! That Shared Folders page, above the big yellow buttons, has that permissions thing that you would think would go: Users: Read / Write / Execute Others: Read Only But the complete opposite is true! OMV really is buggy compared to Synology! Thanks though, this has been putting the brakes on me for months!

[@ShotokuTech]

It does have its idiosyncrasies, but I have 4TB of data on a Raspberry Pi 4 and two 8TB USB drives running for years now. All of my channel content is stored there, plus photos, videos, MP3's, etc. Best wishes.

[@JudyFayLondon]

Yes, now we have two groups. This is interesting, thank you

[@ShotokuTech]

It is hard to believe this OMV with 8TB of storage that is backed up is still serving me well. All of my data is here. Thanks for your interest!😁

[@JudyFayLondon]

@@ShotokuTech That's wonderful

[@SenselessTalk]

Thank you. Sir I wish there is an audio book voiced by you. Love your voice.

[@ShotokuTech]

I hear you can make money doing that. Thanks!

[@johnpeterson8674]

This helped me very much thank you.

[@ShotokuTech]

Glad it helped!

[@HP0980]

5:55 Thats not exec, thats read happening, file is brought locally to you and exec is happening on your PC. Exec permission on OMV implies imo permission to execute on host.

[@ShotokuTech]

Hey! Thanks!

[@HP0980]

@@ShotokuTech good video!

[@AgustinCesar]

This may be a necromancy of an old topic but I wonder: I have a shared folder, and I want to setup inside that folder (folder a) another new folder (folder b) with different user and password. Would user be shown another user/password prompt when trying to access folder b? or should I setup another different folder share? (new folder b share)

[@ShotokuTech]

I would keep it simple. Different permissions, different share.

[@priyankakadam4272]

I want to give permission to create folder but not to delete it how can I do that?

[@ShotokuTech]

There may not be enough granularity in the permissions. If you can grant Read/Write to a group the user belongs to, but add explicit deny on deleting folders on the user, that could work. But I don't see a way to do that with the granularity of permissions in the console.

[@AurielPhoenixArt]

This sounds interesting! So this is a pi-based cloud or FTP if I understand correctly? (Love your desktop wallpaper btw.)

[@ShotokuTech]

Mine is in the closet in one of the rooms. It stores all our photos, music and video collection and backups of our PCs. So it is like private cloud storage. I need a couple bigger USB drives. The 4TB ones are getting full. Next it will be a couple of 8TB drives. I need to start selling off some of this tech!

[@totosaurio8562]

I have an issue with this configuration, whenever a new folder is created on the share, the user I'm logged in has no execute privileges on that folder so I have to reapply the Recursive check every time. Is there a workaround for this?

[@ShotokuTech]

That is interesting because I am using this as the underlying data storage for the video content on this channel. To be honest I have not updated this system in some time. Maybe I need to revisit. But I can't promise. Thanks for your comment.

[@ShotokuTech]

Is the user creating the new folder in their own context or is it some other entity creating the folder?

[@vrlp]

My Problem is, that I dont want to forward the whole FTP thingy because my cascaded Routers dont like that at all. The alternative is SSH, but in SSH for some reason, the read, write and visit settings dont mean a thing. That means that every user with ssh, which is needed to connect to the server will have all rights and can basically delete my whole OS. Any Idea on how to fix this? Im searching for Weeks now and even reddit couldnt help me.

[@ShotokuTech]

Accessing OMV via SSH over the internet? I don't have anything on that. Best wishes.

[@cosmicazur]

Thanks for the video. How do you log in /out on Windows. I see you typing ip address and the folder but how do you log out and login with a different username and pass please?

[@ShotokuTech]

In windows 10 at least, you can right-click on the start button itself and choose 'sign out'. I was kinda struggling here to illustrate the point of your question. If you are in a fresh session, a restart or sign out/sign in, when you attempt to access a share by using the run dialogue or Windows Explorer address bar, \\ServernameOrIPAddress\ShareName, your current credentials are passed on. If these credentials aren't valid for that share, you get prompted for a user name and password. You can save or store that credential for use again and again. You can also use the 'Map network drive' dialogue in Windows Explorer, right-click on 'This PC'. Pointed it at \\ServernameOrIPAddress\ShareName and click Connect using different credentials. If you already have a session on that share, you may run into issues trying a different connection to the same share. So log out/log in can clear some of that out. Worst case is command prompt NET USE command to see current sessions: C:\Users\jeff_>net use New connections will be remembered. Status Local Remote Network ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK Z: \\RASPBERRYPI\ShotokuTech Microsoft Windows Network The command completed successfully. Then: C:\Users\jeff_>net use z: /delete There are open files and/or incomplete directory searches pending on the connection to z:. Is it OK to continue disconnecting and force them closed? (Y/N) [N]: y z: was deleted successfully. Now there are no connections: C:\Users\jeff_>net use New connections will be remembered. There are no entries in the list. Log out/log in again and reconnect. This is a lot to put in a comment. Play around. You can't break it. It will work for you, then you will have more understanding. LOL I just broke mine doing the above. Now I have to fix it. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.

[@cosmicazur]

@@ShotokuTech lol there's a lot to take in. I will see how it goes and get back to you. Much appreciated. Merry Christmas and Happy New year mate.

[@ravenholm6189]

hi, im still new to OMV, i want to ask, is it possible to make it so that user can see what inside the folder they are shared with but they can't copy the content from the shared folder to desktop and vice versa? thank you

[@ShotokuTech]

You could try setting the user as 'read only' in the Shared Folders/ACL and in SMB/Share Folders permission set to 'read only'. Without 'read and execute' users would not be able to open the files at all.

[@sergiocascales603]

Hello. What about nested folders? If i have parentfolder and miscrw and miscro can't access to it but inside have parentfolder/childrenfolder and i want to grant access to miscrw is posible? Or if parent folder doesnt have permissions all subfolders have the same permissions?

[@ShotokuTech]

I think I might have good info to get you started between these two videos here. Happy to discuss further if you still have questions. Thanks! OpenMediaVault Give Your Users a Home Folder kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXbFk5RjmsZ8erc Raspberry Pi and OpenMediaVault Practical Questions and Answers kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHyklYOre7mLaac

[@reanitkhmer3325]

Thanks your video sir, May i know openMediaVault client can access share with browser or not ? Thanks.

[@ShotokuTech]

Hey! I learned something new today. LOL. Why yes you can. I just browsed to file://///192.168.1.226/share/Music/ in my browser and it opens. Thanks.

[@anthonycoppet8788]

Hi . HELLLLLLP got a "MEDIAS" repository In shared folder. But I can't delete it. Marked as referenced. All NFS/SMB/ are off... And a did reboot many times. This fu.... repo is still there... How to reset I don't want touch the config.xml file

[@ShotokuTech]

Is it possible you have enabled some service or add-on that created this folder? I can't say I have seen any folders that I did not create in OMV.

[@anthonycoppet8788]

@@ShotokuTech impossible... only media vault and plex (I even erase this container ).

[@ShotokuTech]

@@anthonycoppet8788 What is impossible? To install Plex you have to download and install a 3rd party addon "OMV Extras". I am just saying that if folders suddenly appear perhaps it is part of this third party addon "OMV Extras". I would like to help, but I have not experienced what you are talking about and I have not installed "OMV Extras". I am really happy with the native OpenMediaVault MiniDLNA service in OMV. I recommend this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/enPVaqWXmr2Nh8U Maybe the author of this article has more info about "OMV Extras"? www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/install-plex-plugin-on-openmediavault

[@funkidzstation]

Hello Sir, thanks for the explanation on the video, i wanna ask as i explain : I have to make one main shared folder (MAIN) with three subfolders inside (SUB1, SUB2, SUB3) where all users must have read only permission. Inside the subfolder (Ex: SUB1), there are three sub-subfolders and i have to choose three users also of each sub-subfolder that must be able to have read, write and execute permissions. Can we do this on OMV??

[@ShotokuTech]

For the three read, right, execute users on the three sub folders, you might have to create shares on those folders with these permissions. If you have read only on the main share, that might overrule any file permissions set on sub folders. So RW users need a share and file permissions that are both RW.

[@Teacher5000]

I have an issue that's super basic and can't figure out. I'm creating a public share..and in the drop down for permissions I set to everyone read/write. I hit save. Then save changes to config. I go edit share and its not set to everyone. It reverts back to default which is administrator and other etc. What am I missing?

[@ShotokuTech]

Let me check

[@Teacher5000]

@@ShotokuTech thanks

[@ShotokuTech]

Heck I even had to rewatch my own videos. LOL. Start with this: OpenMediaVault: Configure Disks, Shares, SMB and Users kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqCudo1_itFlmqc I just created a share named test under shared folders with 'everyone RW' and when I go back and look at ACLs it has 'users RW'. When you click around in here, there is no entity named 'everyone' that I can find anywhere. So I am thinking you need guest access in the SMB Service by adding the share here and setting 'Public' to 'Only Guests' meaning no credentials are required to access. Also in SMB Service, when adding a share there is a switch for 'Honor existing ACLs' that might block access if this folder has a parent folder with different setings. You may need to switch this off. Hope this helps

[@Teacher5000]

@@ShotokuTech holy crap! This was explained perfectly and makes complete sense. I think they should change wording from everyone to something else then. I did exactly as you mentioned on the actual SMB share (guest only). It worked first try. Thanks a ton!!!!

[@ShotokuTech]

@@Teacher5000 Awesome! I keep trying. Thanks.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Mouse tails - too much LDS in the 60s

[@ShotokuTech]

Funny how people have commented on this and it seems to be a default setting on all my different Win 10 PCs. I have never manually set this, ever. Besides how much is too much? Me and don Juan are still here. I have not seen don Genero for a while though. LOL.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

@@ShotokuTech Its whats called a 'Marmite' thing in Britain i.e. You either love it or hate it

[@ShotokuTech]

@@PrinceWesterburg I literally am running stock mouse settings on all my PCs. If dude is tripping over mouse trails, dude is tripping. I have too many PCs and too many mouses to bother changing the settings. LOL. Marmite? Can't say that I have. LOL

[@DanJackielz]

4:56 I found a quick and easy way to logout of the network share with just one click. Just paste this into a notepad and change it to be a bat file: @ECHO OFF net use * /delete /y PAUSE Every time you click the bat file it should open up a cmd window and delete all Windows credentials saved in the credential manager (Control Panel \ User Accounts \ Credential Manager). You can do this manually opening up a Command Prompt, just don't run it as Administrator, and type: net use * /delete /y /y is used to skip the confirmation that you wanna delete all the credentials. I found that this works most of the time, but when you login and logout frequently it may not log you out even tho there are no saved credentials. If this is the case you just need to wait or relog into your windows profile. Source: superuser.com/questions/352270/how-to-make-windows-7-log-off-from-samba-shared-drive-manually-or-automatically

[@ShotokuTech]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I didn't find it to be a sure fire thing. I actually did try the 'net use delete' commands as I wanted to demonstrate different access between one user and another and this did not work until I logged out of the Windows session and logged back in. There were no net connections listed and I either wound up accessing as the previous user or got error saying there is already a session with a different credential, though I could not delete one. I want to stay on topic to keep the video concise as possible, so I did not show NET USE commands in the video. My line of thinking is if people are using shared machines with different levels of access, probably best to get them accustomed to logging out. Thanks for the detailed comment.

[@DanJackielz]

@@ShotokuTech Understandable that you don't want to mix things.

[@ShotokuTech]

@@DanJackielz Thanks for the comment just the same. Stop by again soon.