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WLauHK
Mar 24, 2022Aspirant
ReadyNAS 4312v2 - Web Admin Page Management
Dear Sir, May I know if the web admin page management allows to set a role who can only manage the snapshots or monitor the NAS performance, but cannot browser or download the files under shares?...
- Mar 24, 2022
Sandshark wrote:
But to answer your question, there is no such user type on a ReadyNAS.
Yeah. There is no way to limit what an admin can access.
WLauHK - it might be helpful if you gave us more details on what you need to accomplish.
If you need to ensure that some files/folders are kept completely private, then setting up an iSCSI LUN, and putting iSCSI clients on the PCs would accomplish that. TrueCrypt containers would be another way. Those approaches work because the encryption key for the storage repository is stored in the clients, and is not on the NAS. One aspect is that the files can't be shared - only one user can access the repository at a time.
StephenB
Mar 24, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Sandshark wrote:
But to answer your question, there is no such user type on a ReadyNAS.
Yeah. There is no way to limit what an admin can access.
WLauHK - it might be helpful if you gave us more details on what you need to accomplish.
If you need to ensure that some files/folders are kept completely private, then setting up an iSCSI LUN, and putting iSCSI clients on the PCs would accomplish that. TrueCrypt containers would be another way. Those approaches work because the encryption key for the storage repository is stored in the clients, and is not on the NAS. One aspect is that the files can't be shared - only one user can access the repository at a time.
WLauHK
Mar 31, 2022Aspirant
Thanks for your suggest.
Setting up iSCSI lun and clients is a way, but it may not suitable for large amount of data. It takes longer time for data recovery.
- SandsharkMar 31, 2022Sensei - Experienced User
If you do decide to look at VeraCrypt containers as an option, be sure to turn "strict sync" off in any share containing them. Strict Sync significantly hinders write operations to VeraCrypt containers.
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