Windows style permissions?

[scottlindner]

Do any NAS's support Windows style permissions? What do I look for? Can I assume that if a NAS supports AD for authentication that it also supports Windows style permissions that can be set directly from within Windows Explorer?

Cheers,
Scott

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Generally yes, especially when they can plug into AD. For the more basic types...granted I haven't worked with a lot of smaller NAS boxes..but the basic ones I've seen still do basic permissions. But the ones I generally work with for my SMB clients, they run on Windows Storage Server.

 

[scottlindner]

Is there a way to search the SNB database of NAS's for this? For Windows Storage Server or are you already confident that WSS is way out of home user price range?

I read on a QNAP forum that permissions are done per share only which is ridiculous. As a test I fired up OpenFiler in a VM and configured a group per user and doing that I essentially got permissions control per user right in Explorer. The only apparent limitation is that it appears to automatically apply to al subfolders and files rather than asking first like NTFS would. I wonder, do these affordable linux based NAS's work just like OpenFiler? Other than QNAP sine QNAP does it per share.

Scott