How do I setup security in my shares

Good morning,

MDGM and Brian-Thanks for the help.

Brian, I did as you suggested and it seems to have solved my problem, no I can log into the portal via IP or Device name and I get the Ver. 6.4.2 admin page, in that regard all is well so far...thank you.

Now my problem seems to be with folder permissions, I created 2 users to test permissions and also created 2 folders, added quotas to each folder and also added the users that will be allowed to access the folder, since , for now, I will only be using windows to access these folders I only activated the SMB protocol.

From my windows 10 computer, when I go to file explorer , Network, NAS, I can see all the folders residing in the ReadyNas, when I click on one of the 2 folders I created and protected I can access the content without being asked for user and password. Please keep in mind that for both folders I only gave Network permission to my wife, my new user that I created, Admin and my cloud user ID. For file permission I only game access to the folder owner (designated my wife as folder owner), Admin, my newly created user and my wife. Did not give any permissions to the folder group.

Now on my wife’s computer (Windows 7) when I try to access the folder I do get prompted for a user and password, but when I type the information I can't access the folder. I just get the prompt message asking for user and password and at the bottom of the prompt windows I get a message saying Access Denied. Tried this with both my wife’s user and my user (not as admin).

Are you logged into your Windows 10 PC with the same user/pass as one of the authorised users on the NAS?

As for your wife's computer, is the username the same but the password different? Or does your wife's user on the NAS have the same name as her computer name? Have you opened the command prompt, deleted any connections to the NAS and tried connecting again?

Yes, the new user I created for myself does have the same Usr/Pswd as my windows 10 Admin user account. But the new user account I created on the NAS does not have Admin rights. For example, I created a folder and named it "Test", I only gave network and file access for the folder to the Admin and  my ReadyCloud user (this access was inherited by default), when I go into file explorer and either type \\readynas or when I click on the readynas I con under network, I can access all folders even the "test" folder. 

Also, when I want to access the admin portal and I type in my browser "ReadyNas" I got directly to the "ReadyNas/admin/" page but if I type https://My NAS IP i go directly to a logon windows  and if I type any other user and password besides amin I will not be able to log on. I other words, I can't seem to be able to log on to the Nas portal with any of my users besides the Admin.

In regards to my wife's windows 7 pc, as in my case, her NAS user account and password is the same as her windows 7 admin account that she uses to log on to her pc. When I go to the file explorer and go to Network,  when I click on the readynas icon I'm finally able to access all the shares that she has autorization to access but it does it without asking for any user/pswd except for the folders that I did not give her permisson to access; also,  when I try to log-on the ReadyNas portal and I type in the browser "https://My NAS IP"  I get the same behavior as when I try to logon with my user account.

As of this moment I have almost everything set, the only problem is that I can't log into the NAS portal with any of my users except the admin. 

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Madmax1963 wrote:

Also, when I want to access the admin portal and I type in my browser "ReadyNas" I got directly to the "ReadyNas/admin/" page but if I type https://My NAS IP i go directly to a logon windows  and if I type any other user and password besides amin I will not be able to log on. I other words, I can't seem to be able to log on to the Nas portal with any of my users besides the Admin.

  

As of this moment I have almost everything set, the only problem is that I can't log into the NAS portal with any of my users except the admin. 

  

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This is by design.  https://ipaddress and https://nasname both redirect to the admin page, and only admin can log in there.

If https is enabled for the share, you can access the share with http://nasname/sharename.  But frankly it isn't very useful.  The normal way to access the NAS locally is from windows explorer (or finder on OSX).  Over-the-internet there are several options, including FTPS, ReadyCloud, OpenVPN, OwnCloud,  

Excellent information, thank you for all the help and that goes for everyone that has taken the time to chime in and post.

One final question, since on both of my NAS users have the same user name and password as in the windows computers/we use does that mean that when I want to open the share related to that persons account, when he or she is logged in their computer,  I don't have to type in the user/password for the NAS since it uses the windows login info?

Again thanks everyone for all their help !!

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Madmax1963 wrote:

 

One final question, since on both of my NAS users have the same user name and password as in the windows computers/we use does that mean that when I want to open the share related to that persons account, when he or she is logged in their computer,  I don't have to type in the user/password for the NAS since it uses the windows login info?

 

  

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This is actually up to Windows, not the NAS.  If there is no credential saved for the NAS in the PC, then Windows will present the user/password used to log into the Windows account.  

-If that is accepted, and matches a NAS user then you will see the private share for that user.  

-If it is accepted, but doesn't match any NAS user, then you have guest access.

-If it is not accepted, then Windows will prompt for credentials. 

Thank you for your prompt reply. Is there anyway I can manipulate or modify this in windows?

Hi Madmax1963,

You can add each username or credential via Windows Credential Manager. 

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

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BrianL2 wrote:

You can add each username or credential via Windows Credential Manager. 

 

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Yes.  And the username/password there will be used whenever you access the NAS.  That doesn't need to be a username on the PC, but it does need to be configured on the NAS.

If you access the NAS by both its name and its IP address, you will want two credential entries (one using the name, the other using the IP address).

Excellent, thank you both for all your help.

Kind regards,

MadMax1963

Hi Madmax1963,

You're welcome. You may now close this thread by clicking the "Accept as Solution" button in one of the responses that you received.

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team