I have a machine running NASLite-SMB that I've been using with no problems for ages.
I recently added a new machine to my LAN which is running Windows 7 beta, and have created desktop shortcuts to the two drives on my NAS like I have on all the other Windows machines in the house. I can access the two drives perfectly fine, I can read and write files on the two drives perfectly fine.
From the Win7 machine, I tried to delete a folder on the drive, though, and ran into an error. Upon further scrutiny, I've determined that the Win7 machine isn't reading the file permissions correctly. It seems to be seeing everything that was written to the NAS from one of the other machines as read only.
Actually, now that I try it, I find that it shows ALL files as read only, including ones written to the NAS from the Win7 machine.
I can move files around, I can cut and paste, or copy and paste, folders from one place on the drive to another, but I can't alter them or delete them.
I right-click a file or folder, select Properties, and select the Security tab, and under
Group or user names I see:
Quote:
Everyone
S-1-5-21-1409530412-1672661395-163577672-1196
S-1-5-21-1409530412-1672661395-163577672-1197
...where Everyone has two heads next to it, and the other two have a question mark next to them.
And under
Permissions for Everyone I see that the only item checkmarked under Allow is Read. I can't change the permissions from the Win7 machine, and of course there are no edittable checkboxes appearing in the Allow or Deny columns, just whitespace.
If I go to the WinXP Pro machine most of the files were written from and examine the same Security tab, I
might see something like under
Group or user names above (the same long-string-of-numbers things after Everyone) for a very brief moment before it then resolves into the usual permissions:
Quote:
Everyone
NAS-User (NASLITE-SMB\NAS-User)
NAS-User (NASLITE-SMB\NAS-User)
...where the first and last on the list have two heads next to them and the one in the middle has one head.
And under
Permissions for Everyone, all the Allow and Deny columns have unfilled boxes all the way down. (I.e. it lets you set checkboxes if you want to, not that NASLite-SMB actually ACTS on those changes...)
I'm HOPING this is something that is corrected in newer editions of the NAS software here.
Anyone else here using Windows 7? Are you having similar difficulties? Are you using later NAS soft from here and having, or
not having, this trouble under Win7?
Is this a bug with NASLite, or is this a bug with Win7 when dealing with non-Windows shares?
I'm using Build 6801 of Win7, BTW.
(Pokes around a bit more...)
Hmmmm... Yesterday I tried to delete some files in a subdir on the NAS, and got the same error. I just tried deleting them now and COULD delete them. I tried to delete the folder with them still in it, and got the
Folder Access Denied, You need permission... error, but was able to delete the folder after deleting the contents, and then delete the folder that that was in. This is simply weird.
Still doesn't explain why Windows7 is displaying the permissions wrong, though.