Setting up folder permissions on a Synology Rackstation using DSM 5.2
Contrary to much of the information out there, setting up folder-level permissions on a Synology DiskStation or RackStation is not actually too hard. Apparently previous versions of DSM didn't actually support this, or at least, not very well. You could only set user access to an entire shared folder (root folder) but not to the subfolders within it. (Unless, maybe, you knew your command-line interface (CLI) or had Windows Active Directory capabilities.) But DSM 5.2 seems to support it OK. Note that DSM uses the term "Shared Folder" to refer to the root of the shared volume. Many people would refer to this as a "root folder" or a "shared volume", but Synology has chosen to call it a "Shared Folder". (Awesomeness....) You can obviously set up different Shared Folders (root folders) for various purposes, if you want to. Some people are in a situation where this doesn't work. Like, maybe, you want to share your files with vario...