I have samba (SMB) share called "pictures" which I map to my Windows 7 machine as drive Y:. I used Windows Explorer to move some pictures to my Y: drive today (as I've done hundreds of times before) but I got the error, "You need permission to perform this action". This has never happened before.

I ssh'd to the ReadyNAS and looked at the directory to which I was trying to move my picture and found permissions of "drwxr-xr-x guest guest". I see that some of my other directories have permissions of "drwxrwxr-x guest guest". As it turns out, I can move files to those directories. I then tried to create a new directory on my Y: drive (in my "pictures" share) and the new directory received permissions of "drwxrwxr-x+ ken users". ("ken" is my windows username and is the name of my "home folder" on the ReadyNAS). This is rather peculiar since every directory and file in the "pictures" share going back many many years has ownership of "guest.guest".




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