Hello everyone,
TLDR: What is the proper way to set up two shares, one wide open, one with specified permissions to a windows user? The way's I have tried aren't working.
After starting from scratch several times last night and working on this for hours, I got frustrated and had to create an account here hoping for help.
My goal is to have two simple windows shares on my home network. One share should be completely open to anyone on the LAN. I'm just storing movies in it so I want anyone to be able to connect and view whenever they need to without any hassle. I think I have accomplished that. My current configuration for that is: One volume (named "Volume") with the owner user as root, owner group as wheel, Unix permission type with RWE for owner and RE for Group and Other. In that volume I have a dataset (named "Dataset") with owner user as root, owner group as wheel, Unix permission type with RWE for owner, group, and other. I then created a CIFS share in that dataset called "Media" with Apply default permissions and Allow guest access checked. Doing this seems to give me a share on my network that I can access without credentials and create folders in.
The second share I want to be accessible only by my personal windows PC, or with only my known credentials. If possible I'd like it only to be visible to me as well. The problem is I can't seem to get any access to any combination of permissions I try except the above listed permission.
I've tried creating a user which matches the credentials of my windows workgroup user account. Created a dataset which the owner is that specified user. Created a windows dataset with a cifs share with default permission on it. As long as I add the specified user, I can see the share with guest access disabled. If I do or don't allow guest access, when I attempt to access it I am prompted for credentials to which nothing gives me access [nasname]\root, [nasname]\specified workgroup user, [pcname]\root, [workgroup]\specified user, etc. And if I right click > properties to change the permissions via windows on that share it says I only have read only permissions.
What am I doing wrong?
TLDR: What is the proper way to set up two shares, one wide open, one with specified permissions to a windows user? The way's I have tried aren't working.
After starting from scratch several times last night and working on this for hours, I got frustrated and had to create an account here hoping for help.
My goal is to have two simple windows shares on my home network. One share should be completely open to anyone on the LAN. I'm just storing movies in it so I want anyone to be able to connect and view whenever they need to without any hassle. I think I have accomplished that. My current configuration for that is: One volume (named "Volume") with the owner user as root, owner group as wheel, Unix permission type with RWE for owner and RE for Group and Other. In that volume I have a dataset (named "Dataset") with owner user as root, owner group as wheel, Unix permission type with RWE for owner, group, and other. I then created a CIFS share in that dataset called "Media" with Apply default permissions and Allow guest access checked. Doing this seems to give me a share on my network that I can access without credentials and create folders in.
The second share I want to be accessible only by my personal windows PC, or with only my known credentials. If possible I'd like it only to be visible to me as well. The problem is I can't seem to get any access to any combination of permissions I try except the above listed permission.
I've tried creating a user which matches the credentials of my windows workgroup user account. Created a dataset which the owner is that specified user. Created a windows dataset with a cifs share with default permission on it. As long as I add the specified user, I can see the share with guest access disabled. If I do or don't allow guest access, when I attempt to access it I am prompted for credentials to which nothing gives me access [nasname]\root, [nasname]\specified workgroup user, [pcname]\root, [workgroup]\specified user, etc. And if I right click > properties to change the permissions via windows on that share it says I only have read only permissions.
What am I doing wrong?
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