SMB and FTP File Permissions

[Terry Wilson]

I am running Freenas 11.x and use it mainly to backup remote clients to it via FTP, it was setup with default unix permissions on the datastore and I created a user account for each FTP user that was/is FTPing. Life is good....

Now I need to add SMB file sharing so I can use a windows PC to mount the backups on this datastore with a windows based app (Storagecraft Quick Mount utility). This requires Windows File share access. So if I select the datastore and change the file permissions to Windows I lose the ability to FTP into them (don't ask me how I know that ;) ). What is the best approach here to keep the FTP working and yet give me access to these files in the Windows 10 native OS/file sharing protocol?

 

[Terry Wilson]

Uh oh... it gets worse, now the FTP clients are getting permissions issues after going to back to Unix Permissions..... Uh oh..... not good... not good....

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to resolve this?

 

[Terry Wilson]

Were you able to resolve this?

Negative, I was told it was a known bug to be fixed on 16-Jan-2018