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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.
Ah, I mean that only the Public Shares are showing up in Dashboard. My private shares are not.
Although this is a media server (technically), it is really just a backup for my media, all of which is on separate USB drives. People can access the movies from those drives, which are not secured.
As far as the remainder of the data on the NAS, it is also a backup of my artwork, and more importantly of my law office files, and I don't want anyone accessing the backups of those.
So, likely I will just delete the public shares, and not worry about the admin page except to check the general health of the NAS from time to time.
For some reason I thought (from a prior post) that the public shares and the "c" share would disappear when I logged on. I would think it would be ok, then, to delete all NAS generated folders that aren't Ricky sub-folders? (I might keep the subdirectory file structure that is set out in the public Music folder).
If so, I'll consider this as solved, and thanks again for the help.
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.
And, of course, I have a v2 NAS running 5.3.13, however, I also have Windows set up to show me all hidden files. I poke around in both the software and the hardware a lot (and have since I built my first PC in 1984).
No, this is fine as is. You have been remarkably helpful. Biggest problem for me was the confusion between the File Explorer and Internet Explorer (neither of which I use). I will mark this as solved. My NAS is happily chugging away, and all is well.
Thanks.
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