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Tripline
Apprentice
Sep 15, 2016

allow anonymous users?

ReadyNAS 2120 v2 you can select the Allow anonymous access check box to allow anonymous access to the shared folder. In this situation, users are not required to provide their account credentials wh...
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Tripline's avatar
Tripline
Apprentice
Sep 15, 2016

If File Access in the GUI is superceded by the NTFS permissions, then I guess that would make things easier. I would not have to worry about the Everyone checked box in the web GUI then? 

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    JennC
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Sep 15, 2016

    Hello Tripline,

     

    I believe Network Access should always be set to Everyone so NAS will just pass the all the permissions on to the Win server.

     

    Regards,

    • Tripline's avatar
      Tripline
      Apprentice
      Sep 15, 2016

      So NAS permissions does matter, and it depends if the permissions get overwritten on the NTFS side.  

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