Sorry, i wasn't really clear. It's called CIFS in freenas. Samba is the name of the software handeling the cifs protocol.
All steps are to be done on freenas.
first, go create the user in Account -> Users like this:
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Then go over to services, edit CIFS config and set it like this
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Finally, set permissions on your datasets you share:
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After following the steps above (your screen shots) my phantom user is gone, replaced by the new "Samba" user I created.
Seen here:
I am still unable to grant "Full" rights to the "Everyone" user though. :(
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anodos wrote,
I noticed that you have mapped a directory within one of your shares and are attempting to modify its permissions. ... Don't map "\\FREENAS\MUSIC" and change permissions on "Frank Zappa".
Ah! I did *not* try to chg permissions on the folder within the share. I just happened to right-click on whatever folder was open at the time in order to get to the "permissions" display dialog. That screen accurately represents the whole share. I never would chg permissions on any sub- folder.
I noticed your datasets owned by "nobody" (your guest user), but you are authenticating as "richie" this will effectively make your permissions level that of "everyone" which tends to be RO.
Not having been aware "Everyone" is normally a RO group I now wish I'd recorded permissions BEFORE the issue starts! No idea how to was working before the big bang...
So literally wanting EVERYONE to access CIFS shaers ... What to do???
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And to cyberjock:
Thanks for your thoughtful (and expansive) reply! It does not in any way come across as condescending at all. It does offer me an opportunity to reply to things so as to hopefully make them clearer.
This issue is completely reproduceable. I've rebuilt the server many many times and the same thing happens each time.
Yes, this would seem to point to an omission on my part (certainly probable) -OR- something else is just not right in some combination of sub-systems I am using (possible).
Best of luck on the white paper. Trust me, I know what it is to have to prioritize time! I look forward to reading it.
Admittedly, my UNIX permission knowledge is weak. (No kidding, right?) But I am following the FreeNAS manual and, here's what's so strange about it...
It works for some time. A week, a month, whatever, then fails to this state. Suddenly permissions just change.
In the middle of a session copying batches of files to a share, CIFS just stops working.
I'll be editing files on my Win7 PC (local or USB HD) then, when done editing, copy those files to a folder on a FreeNAS CIFS share (Music, in this case).
Edit a batch of files then copy them to a folder on the Music share,
edit another batch of files, copy them to a different folder on the Music share,
edit another batch of files, copy them to a different folder on the Music share...
Then BAM!
Right then, between batch copies, permissions just change.
Copy files A-G to Music/folderZ one moment is fine, w/o issue
and files H-R to Music/folderY FAIL... Time for a server rebuild!
==> Even stranger, at that exact moment is when each and every CIFS share on the FreeNAS server are re-permissioned, not just the Music share I was working in.
That's all I have.