How does Duplicati access network shares?

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@kenkendk

When accessing an CIFS share in Windows

Yes, my NAS shares are CIFS shares.

That solves the confusion around duplicati not using the CM, but still leaves the original issue a puzzle:

Duplicati can't access file even after access rights have been granted

One of my backups included a file (default.m3lib) to which it had no access rights. I changed the access rights using NAS:~# chmod o+r default.m3lib so now it looks like this: -rw----r-- 1 root root 9537289 Aug 3 01:38 default.m3lib I have verified that I can access this file (and duplicati is running as a service under my username) and it works fine. But duplicati still keeps complaining about not being able to access it. Why? 6 Dec 2017 23:50: Message Failed to process path: \\NA…