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Hiding USB HD from non admin users.
I use our Readynas as a local cloud. I have attached a USB HD to it and it functions as a backup. This works wonderfully and cannot be accessed without the admin login. This is all perfect. However, ...
Hi jtwontex,
You cannot hide the USB share but you can set a permission for it to be restricted (local/remote through ReadyCLOUD). Here are some helpful articles you can look at.
Permission on Windows Explorer
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi jtwontex,
You cannot hide the USB share but you can set a permission for it to be restricted (local/remote through ReadyCLOUD). Here are some helpful articles you can look at.
Permission on Windows Explorer
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Its been a while since I posted this. I will mark this as "accept as solution" because the question was answered. However, perhaps we can rename this as a feature request.
I have several resources on my NAS now that I would prefer were only visible to those that sign in to the NAS as the admin. In this case that's basically 2 people out of 30 or so.
- Thank you for the feedback!
There was an older request similar to your thread. I have attached your feedback to that case, so we can put into another coming release.
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