Missing files on Synology

[magister]

(23-02-2014 12:26)DavidHB Wrote:  Presumably, you can access the music folder on your Synology as an SMB share, and set global permissions for the whole folder through Windows in the usual way. If you do that, do the permissions 'stick' when MinimServer accesses the files? I'd have thought that Windows/Samba would have to propagate the permissions in the native Linux environment of the NAS, but perhaps that is just too naive ...

You ask a very interesting question.

My normal workflow is to download, rename, and tag music files on my laptop, then move them to the Synology. I just drag and drop them in Windows Explorer (the Synology displays under the Network tab and I click the little triangle to show the folders--I think this is what you call an SMB share). I know I had to set up some kind of permissions when I first started doing this, but it was a long time ago and I forget details. It has worked smoothly for a long time.

Recently I needed to reorganize my music storage for the first time since setting up the Synology. I thought that this was a really serious change and I was better off doing it in Synology's DSM (disc station manager software, which comes with a very nice GUI). Maybe I was wrong about that!

If you right-click a file in the DSM File Station and choose Properties/Permissions, the files that I have dragged from Windows have a different look to them than do the ones I recently moved around with File Station. The box and the options in it are not the same, and I am just not expert enough with Synology to understand this.

I would not let this put you off from buying a Synology. I found their DSM easy to learn, although with some differences from Windows (as expected) and overall I like it very much. I'm sure I just need some additional knowledge about how Linux-style permissions work.