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Hey Friends, Another question from NAS noob - still exploring my first NAS and I wonder if it is possible to preserve file permissions when copying them to NAS over smb protocol. I have my Samba share mounted as sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=/etc/smb-credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000...

Hey Folks, Been directed here (as "some true experts on the topic are on synoforum.com") from Synology Community. Long story short: I bought myself a first NAS - DS220j - that I plan to use at home. As I am Linux user I was first looking at NFS mounts but because: - setting up kerberos is...

I have literally spent all day figuring out how to direct my Sonos acct to my audio folder on my NAS. It was a ton of trial and error and reading everything I could find on the internet. Finally got it working but have a few questions that I am hoping for some help with. 1. What is SMB? What...

On a Mac I'm connecting to my shared folders in the usual command-K way. I get the list of folders and access one. It mounts and - as usual - the server appears in my Finder window under 'Locations'. Then I remember I need to access that other folder so, as I'm already connected, I click on the...

I just had a connection issue to my NAS via Finder with SMB so I'll add the info here for help. In Finder I go to Go > Connect to server... then I type in smb://myServerName. It connects, but in the Finder sidebar, I could not open any folder. I get this error: This operation could not be...