Problems setting up

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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.