My situation was that using the dashboard (wd web interface) I created a user “ dtest”, that resulted in a share called “ dtest”. Specifically, the rules for samba/SMB are well described here “ Chapter 9. I.e., the order you assign users and grooups permissions to shares and the order you add and remove users from groups results in different settings in the smb.cnf file. The WD PHP/JS dashboard code for manipulating the smb.cnf file is NOT commutative.
Having spent the last few days working with a DL4100, I finally understand why I kept receiving “CIFS Password” log messages and Windows and OSX login errors.
Continuing the discussion from Users and Groups - How does the security work?:
