Home/ Questions/Q 244555
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-11T21:00:52+00:00

I have a D-Link DNS-323 NAS, running some sort of Linux as its OS.

  • 0

I have a D-Link DNS-323 NAS, running some sort of Linux as its OS.
I map a volume as a share in Windows Vista (Ultimate SP2). There are some directories and files on that share that I cannot change/delete – no matter what I try. Trying all of Windows security/permissions dialogs don’t work, as the files owner is “Unix/root” and all other Windows users have read-only permissions.

I managed to ssh into the OS and verified that these files belong to ‘root’ – the user under which I log in, and all the other files (the ones I can change) belong to ‘nobody’.

All fine and well, while I’m in ssh, I can always “chmod +w” the files, or “chown nobody”. But my question is this: how can I make my Windows user (let’s call him ‘admin’) impersonate ‘root’ on the Linux, so I can simply manipulate files from Windows, without resorting to ssh?

In other words, and to make the whole question plainer: how do you tell your OS that a certain user on Windows is a certain user on linux? (that way, I can have ‘admin’ be ‘root’).

Thanks in advance,
Guy

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming the NAS is running samba (almost certainly), there should be a samba config file somewhere in /etc. But I don’t know if it would be editable.

    The remapping between windows/Linux and permissions is all done on the server (samba) side.
    There are a lot of Samba faqs about this.

    • 0