File Permissions Setup Question

[Andrew VanHoveln]

I have read through a number of stickies on how to do this and still can't grasp it completely.

I have a network with about 20 users. In this network there are 8 groups. I also have 15 shared folders that are accessed. For instance I have an engineering folder where everyone in the employee group needs to read it, but only engineering needs to be able to write it. With windows AD this was pretty easy. Assign everyone to groups without explicit denies and then add the groups to the folders with appropriate privileges.

Now with Freenas, I have one share and can't get more than a single user or group access to it. This causes a problem because back to the example above. Say our quality team also needs access to the engineering share, but not the other resources that the engineering group may have access to.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[Whattteva]

It is true that you can only assign one group access to a folder/file. However, one user can be a member of multiple groups though.

Have a look at the "pw" command.