Permissions... So near and yet so far!

[CraftyClown]

Ok, so I really am nearly there!

I've gone from only a few weeks ago, having a Freenas box that simply held my movie collection and my music via Plex, needing no interaction from me. Just the idea of opening a shell, adding a user or even talking about permissions terrified me...

To today, where I have a fully automated Home entertainment system, using Plex, Sick rage, Couch Potato, Headphones, Mylar and BTSync. I have a stack of CIFS shares. I take regular snapshots of my jails and weekly backups of my datasets. I've learnt how to SSH in and I have a VPN set up.

I only have one or two minor problems remaining

The first one is a permissions issue related to my Mylar plugin. Mylar has a user:group of media:media (UID 816) I access the comics Mylar manages from a windows machine, therefore I have added a user in Freenas that matches my Windows 8.1 login. The username is Richard and I have set the group to media, the same as my Mylar plugin.

Everything works fine apart from the fact, Mylar cannot delete anything I create via the CIFS share and I cannot delete anything Mylar creates

Could someone nudge me in the right direction?

 

[SweetAndLow]

Is the dataset type windows or Unix? Also what is the output of ls -l or getfacl on the files in question?

 

[CraftyClown]

Is the dataset type windows or Unix? Also what is the output of ls -l or getfacl on the files in question?

The dataset is Unix

I cannot ls -l the files due to the naming of the folders:

[root@freenas /mnt/TV/Media_3/Comics]# ls -l Fairest (2012)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Is there another way around that?

If I look at the files in Filezilla via ssh, my files have permissions 775, Mylar's files are 660

I've attached screenshots

 

[CraftyClown]

Ok, I ran ls -l on the entire comic folder, and the following are two examples. One created by me and one by Mylar:

drwxrwxrwx 2 Media Media 9 Feb 28 15:41 The Cleaners (2008)
drwxrwxr-x 2 Richard Media 6 Feb 21 20:29 The Dying & the Dead (2015)

 

[CraftyClown]

My dataset is also set as Richard:Media (775)

Is it possible, this is causing problems?

I also just noticed my User Richard isn't allowed group write permissions (see screenshot) If I add them the setting doesn't take

Very odd!

EDIT:

So I've made a minor breakthrough.

I changed the UID of Richard to 816, the same as Media and I can now delete the files made by Mylar

Is there a downside to me having the same UID as Media?


EDIT 2:

So the downside of that, was that once Freenas was rebooted the user permissions got totally confused and everything was marked as unknown user and I couldn't work with any of the files. Changing back to a UID of 1001 fixed it.

So back where I started :(

 

[CraftyClown]

Sorry to bump, but if anyone could help me out with this, I'd be incredibly grateful

 

[CraftyClown]

Bueller... Bueller... Bueller... Anyone?

lol. Sorry, couldn't resist a little bit of Ferris there ;)

So I'm still really struggling here. The only significant problem I still have, is that Mylar cannot overwrite any files that I manually add or set permissions for, via my CIFS share.

I'm thinking of setting the whole data set to 777, but surely that is an unnecessary risk? I just can't get Windows and Unix to play nice together :(


EDIT:

Urghhhh! Have I been a complete dummy here? Should my data sets be Windows rather than Unix? I could have sworn that way back when, I read they should be set as Unix for maximum compatibility, but taking a closer look at the Freenas 9.3 manual, it appears I should be set as Windows

 

[dlavigne]

It should definitely be a Windows dataset running Windows permission type if you're using CIFS.

 

[CraftyClown]

It should definitely be a Windows dataset running Windows permission type if you're using CIFS.

I did change my dataset to windows, but unfortunately my problems have gotten worse :(

I have full access to all my files via windows clients, but Mylar is almost completely crippled permissions wise.

Running out of ideas now

 

[rich110]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but @CraftyClown - did you even get on top of your Freenas / Mylar permission problems? I'm in a similar boat trying to negotiate plugin/system permissions.

 

[CraftyClown]

Hey Rich, I do have Mylar running nicely now. What exactly is the problem you're having?

 

[rich110]

Hi Crafty, the problems I was having are described here ion the mylar site. I think the problem was that the freenas mylar plugin could not correctly handle user:group permissions that are entered into the mylar settings interface. In the end, trying to solve the issue I made such a tangled mess of my permissions that I ended up deleting the entire mylar plugin/jail, the comics dataset and cifs share and just starting from scratch. now it all works great.
Cheers, Rich