Problems setting up

Some specs:

I've got a ReadyNAS NV+ V2. It is running RAIDiator 5.3.13, and is hooked up via Ethernet to an ORBI router. It is set up as an X-RAID2, using 4 4TB WD drives (on the approved list).

All drives are shown as healthy, and I have 10.8 TB of available space.

I am the only user on the system. I can get into the admin page just fine. On that page, I can see the backup and media shares. What I cannot see is my own "home" share. If I try to set it up, I get a message that it already exists. But it does not show up on the admin page, or in the File Explorer.

The NAS itself does show up in File Explorer, but not my home share. I shut the NAS down last night (to move it and the ORBI to a new location), and turned it back on this morning. Still no home share shown.

I've got every share protocol imaginable set up. I have made sure that SMB 1 is enabled. User permissions are set to Everybody read/write.

So far, I haven't been able to move any files from my computer (Windows 10) to the NAS. It's nice to look at, but I'd like to have some functionality.

Help??

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StephenB
Oct 31, 2018
Ricky_Maveety wrote:

For some reason I thought (from a prior post) that the public shares and the "c" share would disappear when I logged on.

C only appears when you log on with admin credentials. If you log on with Ricky (or with with anonymously) it won't. Public shares do not disappear, though seeing them doesn't mean you have rights to access the files and subfolders inside the share. If it's enough to block access for Ricky, then you can change the access in the dashboard to block access to the share contents.

I'm not sure why you want the public shares to disappear when you are logged in as Ricky. NAS running 4.x.x and 6.x.x firmware give you the ability to "hide" a share. You can still access the data if you know the path name, but it isn't shown. However v2 NAS (running 5.3.x) don't have that particular feature.

There is a crude workaround though - you could move everything in the media folder(s) to a subfolder within each share. Then you can set the subfolder as "hidden" using windows file explorer. That would allow you to access the files as "Ricky" or anonymously if you knew the subfolder name. If you just browse into the share, the folder would appear to be empty. Note you can configure windows to show you the "hidden" folders, so this doesn't provide real security. It will prevent casual users from seeing the files, but that's it.

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Ricky_Maveety
Aspirant
Oct 28, 2018
AND, I think I solved my own problem.

I went into File Explorer, and tried to map it. When I got into mapping, lo and behold, the home folder and my home folder in particular showed up. So I mapped it as I drive.

Having done that, I am now able to connect to it and copy files over to it. Although, it still doesn't show up anywhere on the Dashboard, or on the Configuration pages. I guess I'll have to live with that, at least it's working.
schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 28, 2018
The other configured shared folders are showing up in the Windows Explorer tree below the NAS?
- Ricky_Maveety
  Aspirant
  Oct 28, 2018
  Yes, and I think in looking, I may have found the problem. Mind you, this only shows up in Network Mapping, not in File Explorer. In File Explorer all I see is Browse Folders (with sub-folders of backup and media), Music, Pictures, and Video.
  
  If I go into File Explorer (for mapping), then I see the NAS with sub-folders of admin, backup, c, home, media. If I double click on home, then I see another admin folder, and Ricky (mine).
  
  So, I think the share structure (which I call the folder structure or directory structure) has gotten gorked. If I go into Ricky, then I see all my sub-folders, and I can read and write to them.
  
  Now, the question is, is it possible to fix those directories without resetting to factory defaults? The reason I asked is that these drives took about 18 hours to sync, and I'd like to avoid doing that again.
  - Ricky_Maveety
    Aspirant
    Oct 28, 2018
    Oh, and I should explain ... when I say it's not showing up in File Explorer, but it is showing up in File Explorer for mapping ... what I mean is that it's not showing up in the app (Directory Opus) that I usually use to look at files.
    
    Once I map it (actually using File Explorer), then it shows up in Directory Opus (and I was able to create my sub-directories in Directory Opus). Sorry if that was confusing. My bad.