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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). ...
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.
The other configured shared folders are showing up in the Windows Explorer tree below the NAS?
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.
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.
Ricky_Maveety wrote:
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).
This is normal when you are mapping the NAS C drive with the NAS admin credentials. If you use Ricky as the username (and it's password), then c and home will disappear.
Now, here's where I'm going to sound really stupid. I tried setting it up as Ricky for the username and with my password, and it keeps being rejected. Am I supposed to do this through Dashboard, or Configuration (when I was setting up the user, it asked for my email, I put that in, and it asked for a password, and I know for certain what that is), so what am I missing?
One thing that I find interesting, is that while in the Security page, I show up as a user, and I also show up as a Secondary Member of the "user" group, if I look at the user group under the "Groups" tab, it has a space for Secondary Members, and that is blank.
I figure that I am approaching this from the wrong direction. Although I can now use the NAS, I don't want to be fighting with the NAS configuration. I've tried logging in from the browser (that was rejected), and I don't see any way to log in from Dashboard (which I understand is really for admin only ... although I am the admin).
Example: If I put \\NAS-A0-8D-08\home\Ricky in the address bar, it pulls up the directory, but not in Edge or any other browser. If I put \\192.168.1.25\home\Ricky, same problem. Nothing pops up to log me in, or do much of anything else.
It's a puzzlement.
StephenB wrote:
This is normal when you are mapping the NAS C drive with the NAS admin credentials. If you use Ricky as the username (and it's password), then c and home will disappear.
For a user with not much RAIDiator experience, please confirm:
- C is the complete storage volume (makes sense "normal" users don't have access to the volume root)?
- There is no user specific mapping for home, except for admin?
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