Hi dffvb, You're welcome!! My Synology account manager said he referred his clients/contacts to this video as well 😀. Happy you were able to find this video and, more importantly, happy to hear that it answered your questions about folder permissions!!
Amazing, i had bought Synology DS224+ to replace the existing free Dropbox file sharing amongst our 5 members team. I was able to setup with file sharing of sub folders process as explained in your videos, explained beautifully by you and I owe you a gift from Ajay Dewan Bangalore India😊
That is literally the first video that explaines the subfolder situation well enough so that I as a NAS newbie can understand it. Thank you so much for this! I mean don't get me wrong, I'm no tech noob or anything but getting into NAS stuff is so frustrating if you're not familiar with Linux folder structures and permisions and if tried several times to make a cool space for fotos to be used across my diffrent circles of friends an family, but always failed (maybe also because I started out with the more complicated QNAP instead of Synology). Again, thank you so so much for that!!!
Hi Sebastian, Thank you... I appreciate the compliment on the video and I'm glad you loved the mention of our cats!! They have such different personalities and I'm glad I could work them into a video.
I love DSM, but the multiple permissions settings are vague and confusing. It's not often that the first video/guide you click on is the solution to the problem. Thank you!
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation! It would be great to know if there is a way to easily see which permissions has a certain group of users. As far as I can see the only thing that shows up in the "Permissions" section when editing a group are the shared folders only (the main ones), but not the to "nested ones". It would be great to have it because otherwise you have to remember which subfolder was given permission to which group. Is there anything like that?
@swissgroupint Thanks for the compliment on the video!! Regarding your question on permissions for sub folders, make sure that you apply permissions properly to the parent folders and the sub folders beneath it which I cover starting at 3:26 of the video. Also, if you have a specific example of what you would like to setup let me know and I'll see if I can provide more specific details. Good luck!!
Good video, though the issue is where you need to prevent them from even opening files within subfolders. So if you have CATS with subfolders CATS A and CATS B, and you want Oreo to only be able to even view CATS A, they will still see CATS B because of the READ permission set on the CATS folder it seems.
@PowerSystemControlsPvtLtd I'm doing well. Hope you are as well!! Regarding your question, you definitely can set permissions down to a specific file. It is kind of hard to explain in words but, as an example, if the folder structure was folder1 -> with file1 and file2 in the folder you would do something like the following. folder1 - assign the user that needs access to the files with read permissions specifically to this folder file1 - assign the user allow permission to this file file2 - leave as is At this point the user should be able to read or read/write (depending on the permissions you assigned) file1 but won't see file2 at all. Hope this makes sense? If not, let me know and I'll create a video on this. Might be helpful to others as well.
I've been trying to do this for a while and seem to get stuck on the, "Hide sub folders....," which I check." When I log in as the new user, I can see and access each other users' folders in the "Homes folder." what am I missing??
great video again, thanks! are you planning to make some comprehensive video on NFS sharing setup and permissions on Synology? I've been using SMB (and previously AFP) but recently found out NFS performs much better from MacOS guests, but the NFS setup is so weird being more of a machine-based access instead of user-authentication access...
Hi again TzzSmK, You're welcome and I'm glad you liked this video. Regarding your question, I wasn't planning a video on NFS but your comment on better performance intrigues me. I'll look into NFS and will release a video at some point if/when I am able to get through testing things out. In the past I've tried NFS on MacOS, but I always switched back to SMB just because the NFS setup was a little weird like you mentioned.
@@digital_aloha indeed, not sure if it's new DSM 7 feature, but it supports up to NFS 4.1 now, load times of crowded folders with many small files are literally 1000% faster compared to SMB 3, when accessed from Mac, even via WiFi, another weird thing about NFS is, it doesn't support Recycle Bin, so it's less fool-proof compared to SMB...
I'm trying to follow your tutorial, but doesn't seem to get it to work right. I have a user A which only need acces to folder folder2 in public/main/sub1/sub2/folder2, where folder 1 and folder3 also exsist , but he should not be able to acces them. all other users can have acces to all folders. isn't that possible?
Hi Villy, I think the setup you want is possible. What you need to do is work your way through your folder structure, setting up read permissions for user A and apply that specifically to the public, main, sub1, and sub2 folders. Then when you get to folder2 set read (and write?) permissions for user A to all folders below that. If you follow the setup for Oreo and Docker in the video you'll see what I mean. You just need to go a bit further because you have a few more sub-folders that need permissions setup. Hope this help? Good luck to you!!
@@digital_aloha thanks, i figured out that I needed to remove default user from the main folder and set read only for the user A to the folders main/sub1/ and set not allow for the forbidden folders in sub2. Luckily it was only 24 folders with 4 folders each I had to edit rights on.
Thanks for the video. Unfortunately didn't help accomplish my goal. I'm not sure if this is doable but still like to ask for help. Is it possible exclude permission for some users to not see some subfolders? e.g. You have tree folder below - top folder Movies and couple subfolders underneath. How would you exclude "Horror" and "Adult" subfolder not see for other users (except Admin) in Video Station. Is it possible in this scenario w/o moving "Adult" entirely out for "Movie" folder? Thanks. Movies (shared folder) -Kids (admin, user-John) --Teenage (admin, user-John) --Cartoon (admin, user-John) -Nature (admin, user-John) -Family (admin, user-John) -Horror (only admin) -Adult (only admin) thanks.
Hi swimmichal13, You're welcome! I looked into the setup you are trying to create and it doesn't seem like it is possible, even if you setup permissions like described in this video. Video Station indexes all files regardless of permissions and it seems the option people turn to is creating a home directory per user for their own personal media library. Here is a thread that talks about permissions, home directories, etc -> community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/92261. Hopefully this clears things up and hopefully you can find a solution that works out for you. Good luck!!
Omg thxs, very well explained, i have one problem, plz help, when i remove the permision of a user to read permisions on file station, since i dont want a user to see the others users names, the shared folder stop showing in drive, even tho it shows in file station, idk why this single option causes this, also why if i, in the main folder i removed the permision to read permitions on all subfolders, it still can be read, unless i do this on each one. thxa in advance.
Is it possible to add a read only user group and allow the user to have a weak password or no password at all? So young children and house guests can access a folder with family photo highlights only and zero access to the rest of the NAS? Tried to set it up Synology wouldn't allow a weak password thought I might be missing something.
@stevebruno7572 Sorry for the delay in responding, but I wonder if this video on Share File Links (ua-cam.com/video/bvvIoSMYDK4/v-deo.html) is what you are looking to do. Hope this helps or hopefully you resolved the issue already.
Hi William, I don't think you can do what you want because the user needs to traverse through the parent folder to get to the child folder. Maybe setting up another shared folder, without that deep of a child folder structure, would work better in your case? Hope this helps and good luck with your setup!!
@@williamsuen1831 I'm happy there was a solution and I apologize that I wasn't able to provide you with the answer. Would be great if you could share what the steps were? I'd like to know personally so I can assist others in the future if someone else runs into the same issue you had.
@@digital_aloha If you want to only show a certain sub-folder for account "userA", please find below instructions to setup the permission. Scenario Folder Structure: Shared Folder A -> B -> C -> B1 -> B2 Goal: To let "userA" only able to access the folder C and the subsidiaries. Instruction: 1. Right-Click Shared Folder A -> Permission. Set "Allow" "Read only" permission to shared folder (A) for account "userA", and applied to "This folder" only. 2. Right-Click Sub-Folder B -> Permission. Set "Allow" "Read only" permission to sub-folder (B) for account "userA", and applied to "This folder" only. 3. Right-Click Sub-Folder C -> Permission. Set "Allow" "Read-Write" permission to sub-folder (C) for account "userA", and applied to "All". 4. Go to Control Panel > Shared Folder > Select Shared Folder A, Edit > Tick-up the option: "Hide sub-folders and files from users without permissions"
@@williamsuen1831 Thanks for the detailed information!! This seems to be the exact steps I went through in the video so I'm surprised things didn't working for you? I think your original comment/question confused me because the user does need a way to get to child folder through the parent folder which requires read access. Glad things are working for you though and thanks again for the information!!
Hi Sir, It's me again! I am trying out to further manage the permissions on an individual file level but I don't think that's possible? I have tried giving a specific user the access to the main folder while unchecking the "child/sub-folders" options in the permission editor, but it doesn't work. Let's say I gave the folder permission to a dedicated super user(Bob) from the admin account. Even after login in Bob's account with the access rights to change the permissions of the child's folder, I wanted other users(e.g., Mary) to only be able to view the files inside, cannot download, cannot modify (I have uncheck the write permission and transverse folders/execute files option). But after login into Mary's account, I could still download and modify the files in the child's folder. What I wanted was for the selected users/groups to be able to read the specific child folders and not be able to execute/download/modify the files from other child folders. So far I'm only able to manage the access rights and permission of the parent folder but further managing the child folder is too rigid. I have been trying it out but I can't figure it out as it works differently from managing in windows, apparently the read-only feature doesn't seem to be working. Hope you're able to advise, cheers!
To further add on, I followed your tutorial and created a new parent and child folder ("This folder" and only ticked "Read" access). The weird part is that even when I'm in Oreo account, I could still view Docker's and Nisha's folder, as well as downloading and modifying their files. Which is not what I want, I only want Oreo to be able to view his/her own folder/files and not be able to view Docker's and Nisha folders. So at this point, I'm unsure if there's anything wrong with my NAS or I'm configuring the settings/permissions wrongly...
Hi Blueworm, Not sure if I am getting everything you want to do, but I'm pretty sure the settings don't go down to the file level. Also, make sure the accounts aren't all admin accounts because they will be able to see everything. As for read access I believe that option still allows the user to download a file, but the original file can't be edited, nor can a new file be uploaded into a read-only folder. Hope this helps?!?!
Hi Jherv, I'm not sure how to setup that type of filtering on a Synology NAS. From what I've seen it isn't possible, but if you do find a solution please share it with me. I'd be interested in understanding how to do what you are looking to do as well. Good luck to you!!
Explaining "apply to" @4:18 helped me out a TON! Thanks!
@jasonapol5479 You're welcome!! Glad the video explanation helped!!
I cannot believe this, this is exactly what I have been looking for, even contacted support, and they were not able to help... thank you sir
Hi dffvb, You're welcome!! My Synology account manager said he referred his clients/contacts to this video as well 😀. Happy you were able to find this video and, more importantly, happy to hear that it answered your questions about folder permissions!!
Amazing, i had bought Synology DS224+ to replace the existing free Dropbox file sharing amongst our 5 members team. I was able to setup with file sharing of sub folders process as explained in your videos, explained beautifully by you and I owe you a gift from Ajay Dewan Bangalore India😊
Great to hear that the video was helpful to you. Amazing to have a viewer from India!!
That is literally the first video that explaines the subfolder situation well enough so that I as a NAS newbie can understand it. Thank you so much for this! I mean don't get me wrong, I'm no tech noob or anything but getting into NAS stuff is so frustrating if you're not familiar with Linux folder structures and permisions and if tried several times to make a cool space for fotos to be used across my diffrent circles of friends an family, but always failed (maybe also because I started out with the more complicated QNAP instead of Synology). Again, thank you so so much for that!!!
You're welcome!! Glad to hear that the info from this video helped get your folder structure and permissions set up the way you want!!
RIGHT? Just had the same thought. What a class act of a tutorial.
@@bringyourownheart Thanks for the great feedback!! Happy to hear that the video was helpful!!
Finally a source of information on how to do this, thank you
You're welcome!! Glad to hear that the video was helpful!!
This video helped me work out a complicated permissions issue with one of my clients NAS setups so thank you!
You're welcome!! Happy to hear that the video was helpful!!
Thx for the Help. I wanted to give a friend access, but not to the private part of my NAS :)
You're welcome!! Glad the video was helpful!!
thanks - this video really helped me solve the subfolders permission for certain users. extremely well laid out video.
You're welcome! Happy to hear that the video helped you solve your subfolder permission issues!
Glad I landed on your video, thank you for showing this process. Really appreciate it, thanks
@NikhilPatil-je7eh You're welcome!! Happy the video was helpful to you!!
Brilliant tutorial. Especially loved the use of cats!
Hi Sebastian, Thank you... I appreciate the compliment on the video and I'm glad you loved the mention of our cats!! They have such different personalities and I'm glad I could work them into a video.
thank you it was really helpful tutorial!
You're welcome!! Glad to hear that the video was helpful.
Saved me a ton of time, thank you!
You're welcome!! Happy to hear that the video was helpful.
Merci pour la video! J’ai enfin compris
You're welcome!!
Thank you so much for the informative video. It saves my day!!!
You're welcome!! Glad the video was helpful!!
Really really helpful. Thanks a lot. You've saved a lot of my troubles with this.
Over my head but you're pretty damn smart, thks.
You're welcome!! I hope your comment means that you got your folders and sub-folder setup with the permissions you wanted?
Thank you!!
You're welcome!!
Very helpful!!!!!
Awesome, Glad the video was helpful to you!!
I love DSM, but the multiple permissions settings are vague and confusing. It's not often that the first video/guide you click on is the solution to the problem. Thank you!
Hi Jay, You're welcome!! Awesome to hear that the video helped you get your permissions setup properly!!
YOU ARE THE GOAT, Thank you very much 😍🙏😍!!!
Awesome 😀and your welcome!! Glad the video was helpful.
@@digital_aloha yep, thanks 😊!
Nice video
Thank you!!
Thanks man!!! Cleared my mind!
Hi Victor, You're welcome... Glad the video was helpful!!
You had me at "our-cats".
Hi Paul, I knew there where other Synology NAS users that were into cats as well :) Hopefully the video helped with your setup!
Very helpful and very clair tutorial thank you for your effort
Glad it was helpful and good to hear from you again!!
Thanks
You're welcome... Thanks for the Super Thanks as well!!
Thank you so much, brilliant explantory video!
Hi Féile, You're very welcome. Thank you the wonderful compliment!!
thanks bro u help a lot
@Shubham_Lohia You're welcome!! Happy to hear that the video was helpful to you!!
Well done and well said :)
@MrThabt Thank you!!
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation! It would be great to know if there is a way to easily see which permissions has a certain group of users. As far as I can see the only thing that shows up in the "Permissions" section when editing a group are the shared folders only (the main ones), but not the to "nested ones". It would be great to have it because otherwise you have to remember which subfolder was given permission to which group. Is there anything like that?
Great video. I have tried to give a permission in a sub folder but it doesn't seem to work. Can you assist.
@swissgroupint Thanks for the compliment on the video!! Regarding your question on permissions for sub folders, make sure that you apply permissions properly to the parent folders and the sub folders beneath it which I cover starting at 3:26 of the video. Also, if you have a specific example of what you would like to setup let me know and I'll see if I can provide more specific details. Good luck!!
Good video, though the issue is where you need to prevent them from even opening files within subfolders. So if you have CATS with subfolders CATS A and CATS B, and you want Oreo to only be able to even view CATS A, they will still see CATS B because of the READ permission set on the CATS folder it seems.
nice video well done
@TG3RIMM Thank you for the compliment on the video!!
Hey, Hope you r doing good.
Can we restrict read-write permission to a particular file?
@PowerSystemControlsPvtLtd I'm doing well. Hope you are as well!! Regarding your question, you definitely can set permissions down to a specific file. It is kind of hard to explain in words but, as an example, if the folder structure was folder1 -> with file1 and file2 in the folder you would do something like the following.
folder1 - assign the user that needs access to the files with read permissions specifically to this folder
file1 - assign the user allow permission to this file
file2 - leave as is
At this point the user should be able to read or read/write (depending on the permissions you assigned) file1 but won't see file2 at all.
Hope this makes sense? If not, let me know and I'll create a video on this. Might be helpful to others as well.
Problem: This does NOT work for /photo, and anyone you grant access to limited folders via synology photos can then SMB in and see everyone's folders
I've been trying to do this for a while and seem to get stuck on the, "Hide sub folders....," which I check." When I log in as the new user, I can see and access each other users' folders in the "Homes folder." what am I missing??
Hi cyberwasp461, Could it be that the new user is setup as an administrator? Administrators generally have full access to everything.
@@digital_aloha No, just me. I missed a step in folder permissions. Getting old sucks🙃
@@cyberwasp461 Haha 😀Glad you got everything worked out with the folder permissions!!
great video again, thanks!
are you planning to make some comprehensive video on NFS sharing setup and permissions on Synology?
I've been using SMB (and previously AFP) but recently found out NFS performs much better from MacOS guests, but the NFS setup is so weird being more of a machine-based access instead of user-authentication access...
Hi again TzzSmK, You're welcome and I'm glad you liked this video. Regarding your question, I wasn't planning a video on NFS but your comment on better performance intrigues me. I'll look into NFS and will release a video at some point if/when I am able to get through testing things out.
In the past I've tried NFS on MacOS, but I always switched back to SMB just because the NFS setup was a little weird like you mentioned.
@@digital_aloha indeed, not sure if it's new DSM 7 feature, but it supports up to NFS 4.1 now, load times of crowded folders with many small files are literally 1000% faster compared to SMB 3, when accessed from Mac, even via WiFi,
another weird thing about NFS is, it doesn't support Recycle Bin, so it's less fool-proof compared to SMB...
I'm trying to follow your tutorial, but doesn't seem to get it to work right.
I have a user A which only need acces to folder folder2 in public/main/sub1/sub2/folder2, where folder 1 and folder3 also exsist , but he should not be able to acces them. all other users can have acces to all folders. isn't that possible?
Hi Villy, I think the setup you want is possible. What you need to do is work your way through your folder structure, setting up read permissions for user A and apply that specifically to the public, main, sub1, and sub2 folders. Then when you get to folder2 set read (and write?) permissions for user A to all folders below that. If you follow the setup for Oreo and Docker in the video you'll see what I mean. You just need to go a bit further because you have a few more sub-folders that need permissions setup. Hope this help? Good luck to you!!
@@digital_aloha thanks, i figured out that I needed to remove default user from the main folder and set read only for the user A to the folders main/sub1/ and set not allow for the forbidden folders in sub2. Luckily it was only 24 folders with 4 folders each I had to edit rights on.
@@vovsen123 Great!! I'm glad you got everything figured out!!
Thanks for the video. Unfortunately didn't help accomplish my goal. I'm not sure if this is doable but still like to ask for help.
Is it possible exclude permission for some users to not see some subfolders? e.g.
You have tree folder below - top folder Movies and couple subfolders underneath. How would you exclude "Horror" and "Adult" subfolder not see for other users (except Admin) in Video Station. Is it possible in this scenario w/o moving "Adult" entirely out for "Movie" folder? Thanks.
Movies (shared folder)
-Kids (admin, user-John)
--Teenage (admin, user-John)
--Cartoon (admin, user-John)
-Nature (admin, user-John)
-Family (admin, user-John)
-Horror (only admin)
-Adult (only admin)
thanks.
Hi swimmichal13, You're welcome! I looked into the setup you are trying to create and it doesn't seem like it is possible, even if you setup permissions like described in this video. Video Station indexes all files regardless of permissions and it seems the option people turn to is creating a home directory per user for their own personal media library. Here is a thread that talks about permissions, home directories, etc -> community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/92261. Hopefully this clears things up and hopefully you can find a solution that works out for you. Good luck!!
Omg thxs, very well explained, i have one problem, plz help, when i remove the permision of a user to read permisions on file station, since i dont want a user to see the others users names, the shared folder stop showing in drive, even tho it shows in file station, idk why this single option causes this, also why if i, in the main folder i removed the permision to read permitions on all subfolders, it still can be read, unless i do this on each one. thxa in advance.
Is it possible to add a read only user group and allow the user to have a weak password or no password at all? So young children and house guests can access a folder with family photo highlights only and zero access to the rest of the NAS? Tried to set it up Synology wouldn't allow a weak password thought I might be missing something.
@stevebruno7572 Sorry for the delay in responding, but I wonder if this video on Share File Links (ua-cam.com/video/bvvIoSMYDK4/v-deo.html) is what you are looking to do. Hope this helps or hopefully you resolved the issue already.
can I give read&write access of 1 child folder to a user, but the child folder's parent folder has "no access" for this user?
Hi William, I don't think you can do what you want because the user needs to traverse through the parent folder to get to the child folder. Maybe setting up another shared folder, without that deep of a child folder structure, would work better in your case? Hope this helps and good luck with your setup!!
@@digital_aloha Thanks. I asked the synology support and they gave me the instructions.
@@williamsuen1831 I'm happy there was a solution and I apologize that I wasn't able to provide you with the answer. Would be great if you could share what the steps were? I'd like to know personally so I can assist others in the future if someone else runs into the same issue you had.
@@digital_aloha If you want to only show a certain sub-folder for account "userA", please find below instructions to setup the permission.
Scenario
Folder Structure:
Shared Folder A -> B -> C
-> B1
-> B2
Goal:
To let "userA" only able to access the folder C and the subsidiaries.
Instruction:
1. Right-Click Shared Folder A -> Permission.
Set "Allow" "Read only" permission to shared folder (A) for account "userA", and applied to "This folder" only.
2. Right-Click Sub-Folder B -> Permission.
Set "Allow" "Read only" permission to sub-folder (B) for account "userA", and applied to "This folder" only.
3. Right-Click Sub-Folder C -> Permission.
Set "Allow" "Read-Write" permission to sub-folder (C) for account "userA", and applied to "All".
4. Go to Control Panel > Shared Folder > Select Shared Folder A, Edit > Tick-up the option:
"Hide sub-folders and files from users without permissions"
@@williamsuen1831 Thanks for the detailed information!! This seems to be the exact steps I went through in the video so I'm surprised things didn't working for you? I think your original comment/question confused me because the user does need a way to get to child folder through the parent folder which requires read access. Glad things are working for you though and thanks again for the information!!
Hi Sir, It's me again! I am trying out to further manage the permissions on an individual file level but I don't think that's possible? I have tried giving a specific user the access to the main folder while unchecking the "child/sub-folders" options in the permission editor, but it doesn't work. Let's say I gave the folder permission to a dedicated super user(Bob) from the admin account. Even after login in Bob's account with the access rights to change the permissions of the child's folder, I wanted other users(e.g., Mary) to only be able to view the files inside, cannot download, cannot modify (I have uncheck the write permission and transverse folders/execute files option). But after login into Mary's account, I could still download and modify the files in the child's folder. What I wanted was for the selected users/groups to be able to read the specific child folders and not be able to execute/download/modify the files from other child folders. So far I'm only able to manage the access rights and permission of the parent folder but further managing the child folder is too rigid. I have been trying it out but I can't figure it out as it works differently from managing in windows, apparently the read-only feature doesn't seem to be working. Hope you're able to advise, cheers!
To further add on, I followed your tutorial and created a new parent and child folder ("This folder" and only ticked "Read" access). The weird part is that even when I'm in Oreo account, I could still view Docker's and Nisha's folder, as well as downloading and modifying their files. Which is not what I want, I only want Oreo to be able to view his/her own folder/files and not be able to view Docker's and Nisha folders. So at this point, I'm unsure if there's anything wrong with my NAS or I'm configuring the settings/permissions wrongly...
Hi Blueworm, Not sure if I am getting everything you want to do, but I'm pretty sure the settings don't go down to the file level. Also, make sure the accounts aren't all admin accounts because they will be able to see everything. As for read access I believe that option still allows the user to download a file, but the original file can't be edited, nor can a new file be uploaded into a read-only folder. Hope this helps?!?!
How to filters end user to save mp4 or mp3?
Example user1 can save mp4 or mp3 And documents
While user2 cannot save mp4 or mp3 but can save documents
Hi Jherv, I'm not sure how to setup that type of filtering on a Synology NAS. From what I've seen it isn't possible, but if you do find a solution please share it with me. I'd be interested in understanding how to do what you are looking to do as well. Good luck to you!!