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RPB123
Jun 06, 2020Aspirant
ReadyNas Unknown Users e.g Guest
Hi All, Looking at the logs for our ReadyNas we appear to have logins from ‘guest’ - what does this mean? I see there is a ‘guest’ tick box for access to some of the folders. However, there is n...
StephenB
Jun 06, 2020Guru - Experienced User
RPB123 wrote:
Looking at the logs for our ReadyNas we appear to have logins from ‘guest’ - what does this mean?
It means that some devices are accessing the NAS without using credentials.
You can of course deny guest access if you want, and then create credentials for those users (or force them to apply the credentials they already have).
RPB123 wrote:
There are also some other users called ‘Scan’ and ‘System’ what are these and are either required?
What apps do you have running on the NAS? Is file indexing enabled?
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