On 30/07/17 16:15, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Yes, ownership is handled differently depending on how you access the remote media. With some services it is the service which decides the permissions and ownership, with others it is the client which sets them.
For example, with NFS, the permissions are fully Linux type and decided at the client, typically as the user you run as in the client, but by number, not by name.
There's no mention of NFS on this router's config options, unfortunately, at least nothing obvious. I don't know whether that means it's completely impossible to set up though. I'm sure in many ways it would be preferable to Samba.
With FTP, it depends how it is set up. As you login as some user to the FTP, then the files can be owned by that user, or by a common user for all. The FTP users can be system users or virtual users.
On the router's FTP config, there is the option of anonymous login, but if you don't select that, it says you must use the username 'freebox'.
With Samba, it tries to emulate Windows permissions, set at the server. There can be tables matching Windows users to Linux users.
You might periodically run a script on the server to change the ownerships and permissions to those you like.
For reading, there are protocols designed for reading files quickly my media players. I forgot the name now, but very possibly your router supports it. Ah, DLNA.
I'll have to look at that later. I know my five-year-old Symbian phone supports DLNA! I have a feeling that may be something integrated with the second box that I don't use. The second Freebox, the 'Player', is a miniature thing that runs on Android and handles all the more media-oriented functionality, the TV and whatnot. However, the first box, the 'Server', can also handle attached storage and it's somehow even possible to record TV-via-Internet using the router alone, which is something interesting I hadn't expected.
Maybe you have to locate a forum avenue for that router and ask there?
Like I mentioned in my response to Michael Norman, I have just discovered some support forums and newsgroups for the French ISP. Honestly, when you go through their support pages they were so obscurely linked and difficult to find I didn't expect to find anybody else there, more likely just somebody stuck from 2008 still trying to get out :) But I've now subscribed to the most relevant of those newsgroups for future questions and answers. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org