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How does a Linux user logon to their account on a Readynas
ReadyNas Rn104 - Firmware: OS 6.10.3 ReadyCloud: Enabled Share protocols enabled: SMB, NFS, AFP, HTTP Environment: Linux home network. All devices running Linux Mint 19.3 or 20 A few months ago, ...
Thanks to all for your helpful responses.
Unfortunately, all they have done is confirmed my opinion that the ReadyNas is NOT suitable for the Linux environment. I don't see why Iit should be necessary to install Samba on every machine on the network simply to access a ReadyNas, which is after all a Linux device.
I have instead decided to abandon the ReadynNas and install the drives in a JBOD enclosure driven by a Raspbery Pi. I can acheive everything I want to much more easily.
It's a shame, as I was given 2 of these boxes which, had they been more flexible, could have proved useful.
Thanks again and goodbye
What may be frustrating you (and does for a lot of users, Netgear should change this) is that the user folders are not created until the user has logged into the NAS the first time. You can, of course, log in that first time for them. So, you may not be seeing them because they don't yet exist.
Frankly, though, I find the automatic user folders to be inadaquate and recommend they only be used by those who need them such as for Mac TimeMachine and environments (esp. with Active Directory) where the number of users just makes anything else difficult. Some significant items to me are that the usage of them is not displayed in the admin GUI, they do not support RSYNC for backup, and you just have less control over them individually. Their time of creation is an additional annoyance.
So, since you just need folders for your family, you can create some like any other share and set the access yourself. Note, however, that they cannot have the same name (including with changes in upper/lower case) as the user. So for user John, just create JohnShare, or somesuch.
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