Sub folder shareing and permissions

[Mikevl]

Hi

I am the proud owner of both an ASUSTOR 609 NAS and a Dlink DNS345 NAS. One thing I can't believe Asustor have not done well in a professional product like the 609 is the file sharing and permissions.

It seems that there is a belief at Asustor that you have a Media folder that everyone can access everything in both the top level folder and every sub-folder. Hmmm this is not good. To get to a situation where certain users have certain rights it seems the only way to achieve this is to produce a flat 1st level file structure. Unfortunately this structure would consume many drive mappings be very inefficient on management and generally cause many administration issues.

Is there a solution to this issue on the horizon? The much less expensive Dlink 345 has this sorted. We have a base folder called FTP. From there subfolder for each client, some with sensitive data have been established so that's:
FTP-Client1 Permissions for client 1 only
-Client2 Permissions for Client 2 only
-etc Permissions etc
I thought this would be normal

Where to from here?

Mike v

[orion]

I think there are some ways to achieve that. Here might be the simplest one:

• Open ADM web page -> File Explorer -> Select the Media folder -> Select one folder under Media (or sub-sub folder) -> Right click mouse to pop up a menu -> Choose "Properties".
• You can select folder owner and put Group and Other as "DA" (deny access).
• Mark "apply changes to files and subfolders.

If you need multiple users within one folder. You might need to wait for ACL feature.
http://www.asustor.com/news/news_detail?id=3653

[Mikevl]

Hi

Yes I have looked at this. Its a fairly poor cousin to an Active Directory implementation of ACLs on selected folders, which the very much cheaper DLINK NAS can do. As mentioned this is not very professional for a supposedly high end AS-609R.

Mike v