Why is there no way of editing the windows permissions of an SMB share in the webGUI?

[ezekiel.incorrigible]

Why is there no way of editing the windows permissions of an SMB share in the webGUI? You have to boot up a Windows Client and then do it through Windows, it's not the end of the world but it would be nice if I Could configure everything through the webgui. Is this a feature that has simply not been implemented or is there some kind of compelling reason why you should have to do it this way?

 

[melloa]

Have you tried: Storage -> Click Dataset used on your samba -> click Change Permission icon on the bottom?

 

[ezekiel.incorrigible]

Have you tried: Storage -> Click Dataset used on your samba -> click Change Permission icon on the bottom?

This will allow you to change the Unix permissions right? I'm talking about the Windows ACL permissions - ie. what shows up when you right click -> security on a shared folder from a Windows client machine. By default, you then see the Windows ACL translation of the Unix permissions, plus an 'Everyone' share with some read-only permissions. You can then edit these permissions (I typically delete 'Everyone' read permissions) from the client, but I can't find a way to do it from the webgui.

 

[anodos]

This will allow you to change the Unix permissions right? I'm talking about the Windows ACL permissions - ie. what shows up when you right click -> security on a shared folder from a Windows client machine. By default, you then see the Windows ACL translation of the Unix permissions, plus an 'Everyone' share with some read-only permissions. You can then edit these permissions (I typically delete 'Everyone' read permissions) from the client, but I can't find a way to do it from the webgui.

The UI does not have an ACL editor. To be more specific, the feature is non-trivial to implement and there is a feature request for it.

 

[seanm]

The UI does not have an ACL editor. To be more specific, the feature is non-trivial to implement and there is a feature request for it.

And for anyone that want to follow:
https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/23398

 

[anodos]

And for anyone that want to follow:
https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/23398

Last week I fixed the py-bsd ACL module. It required text form (think getfacl output) to set the ACL. It also lacked methods to perform acl_strip_np() and acl_is_trivial_np().

I'll probably finish the middleware part (which relies on the py-bsd fixes) of it this week and merge in to the FreeNAS 11.3 branch. Then it will be up to the UI team to implement, which might take a while, but is in better shape because they'll be working with an API.

 

[anodos]

Just an FYI for you all. I merged in ACL support for middleware for 11.3
https://github.com/freenas/freenas/commit/38a268a5666432c08eee720883ee0118f99ab3ae