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How to login to 314 as user to browse home share
Hi,
I've had my 314 for 6 years, and it's on the latest firmware (6.10.x)
I've been using it successfully for backups, with a backup account over rsync,
and I can view my Backup share, as well as the Documents, Videos, Pictures, Music shares over SMB, and I can browse them in the admin interface.
I recently created and account for myself, so that I could limit access, yet I can't see my home share.
I see in the docs that it should be created the first time I log in as that user, but I can't seem to do that. When I enter the root URL into the browser, the NAS seems to only want to log me into the admin interface, and naturally only as admin.
Thanks in advance for any help. I must be missing something.
If this is a new user account, the home share won't be created until you access the NAS using SMB with the user's credentials.
If it is an existing account, then you either need to use the NAS admin credentials (in which case the folder will be under "home") or you need to use the user credentials.
FWIW, IMO the home share feature is useful for enterprises, but isn't worth the trouble for home users. If you don't have a lot of accounts, you are better off not using the feature (turning off all file protocols for home), and just using public shares instead. You can of course restrict access to those shares as desired.
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I've just received the email telling me how to access the shares under windows (I'm on linux, but I can see the shares, apart from the new user's home share)
The email also had a link to the reset password page, but that's it.
If this is a new user account, the home share won't be created until you access the NAS using SMB with the user's credentials.
If it is an existing account, then you either need to use the NAS admin credentials (in which case the folder will be under "home") or you need to use the user credentials.
FWIW, IMO the home share feature is useful for enterprises, but isn't worth the trouble for home users. If you don't have a lot of accounts, you are better off not using the feature (turning off all file protocols for home), and just using public shares instead. You can of course restrict access to those shares as desired.
StephenB wrote:If this is a new user account, the home share won't be created until you access the NAS using SMB with the user's credentials.
If it is an existing account, then you either need to use the NAS admin credentials (in which case the folder will be under "home") or you need to use the user credentials.
FWIW, IMO the home share feature is useful for enterprises, but isn't worth the trouble for home users. If you don't have a lot of accounts, you are better off not using the feature (turning off all file protocols for home), and just using public shares instead. You can of course restrict access to those shares as desired.
Cheers! I think my misunderstanding was thinking that it would be browsable by http. (I ultimately wanted to enable webDAV for syncing some docs for an app (Joplin)). To be able to do this it looks like I would have to create a separate share just for this if I want to keep it separate from the public shares, which seems a shame.
I see the home directory was created when the account was created, because I could ssh to it.
And yes, when I get the login and workgroup details right, the share appears in Nautilus over samba. I was trying to satisfy the GUI whining about weak passwords and made things too compilcated. You're probably right about it being more trouble than it's worth.
harry1 wrote:I recently created and account for myself, so that I could limit access, yet I can't see my home share.
Hard to guess what you tried or how you access the NAS. The most usual way is to access and browse a NAS using SMB protocol, starting a single authenticated session using a single account only. As the Linux side is (sorry sayin) rather limited in this aspect and doing per share access authentication, the first authentication would be used for the home share. If you use just non-authenticated "guest" access to the shares, there would be no such home share.
harry1 wrote:I see in the docs that it should be created the first time I log in as that user, but I can't seem to do that.
The moment you access any share by SMB (or e.g. FTP) authenticating as you, the /homes/[yourusername] folder on the ReadyNAS is created, and this home folder will be made accessible as \\NAS\home or ftp://nas/home ...
In your case, you can access the NAS home share - permitting no other shared folder is accessed using an authentication (something Windows does no longer allow, in fact for a while) - you can access (read: mount!) the home share using your username. This will create everything required just in time. If there is another authenticated session to access other shared folders, you will see that other user home share.
harry1 wrote:When I enter the root URL into the browser, the NAS seems to only want to log me into the admin interface, and naturally only as admin.
The ReadyNAS Web UI (using a Web browser) is not intended as a user-access (very different from many other NAS brands offering also user-oriented services), it's just for the NAS administration. Other users can be allowed to access the administration Web UI: The user created must be a member of the admin group. FWIW this won't create the folder and home share - very different from Asustore, QNAP, Synology, & Co.
Unfortunately, Netgear has lost it's ReadyNAS momentum, has even given up ReadyDATA, ... appears ReadyNAS is fallen back in the priorities to maintenance only level (and using an outdated, no longer maintained Linux distro since mid of 2020). It's a shame.
schumaku wrote:
harry1 wrote:I recently created and account for myself, so that I could limit access, yet I can't see my home share.
Hard to guess what you tried or how you access the NAS. The most usual way is to access and browse a NAS using SMB protocol, starting a single authenticated session using a single account only. As the Linux side is (sorry sayin) rather limited in this aspect and doing per share access authentication, the first authentication would be used for the home share. If you use just non-authenticated "guest" access to the shares, there would be no such home share.
Not sure I follow you. I'm viewing a couple of different SMB shares on my linux desktop, each with a different authentication. As I said in a previous reply, my mistake was expecting http shares of home folders. All I can get is Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music, and any share I create.
schumaku wrote:The ReadyNAS Web UI (using a Web browser) is not intended as a user-access (very different from many other NAS brands offering also user-oriented services), it's just for the NAS administration. Other users can be allowed to access the administration Web UI: The user created must be a member of the admin group. FWIW this won't create the folder and home share - very different from Asustore, QNAP, Synology, & Co.
Unfortunately, Netgear has lost it's ReadyNAS momentum, has even given up ReadyDATA, ... appears ReadyNAS is fallen back in the priorities to maintenance only level (and using an outdated, no longer maintained Linux distro since mid of 2020). It's a shame.
Now I understand. That makes sense, sadly. Good thing I'm looking at some open source NAS distro alternatives on a plain old PC.
Has anyone managed to install another distro onto a ReadyNAS?
schumaku wrote:The ReadyNAS Web UI (using a Web browser) is not intended as a user-access (very different from many other NAS brands offering also user-oriented services), it's just for the NAS administration.
This is false. If HTTP file access is enabled on the system and for a user for a particular share, that user can use the web interface to access the share without admin privileges. You must know the name of the share, however; going to http://nas_ip/Sharename, for example. You cannot (as you could under OS4.x) go to top level on the NAS using HTTP(S). Unfortunately, Netgear has not allowed enabling HTTP access to home folders. however. I suppose they don't think it to be used that often and/or doing so automatically for each user is complicated.
I personally find little use for home folders, in large part because of the lack of access control options, so would just create a separate share for HTTP access if I needed it and give access to those who need it. If you use ReadyCloud, using a folder other than a home one is also the only way to let your local user name and ReadyCloud user name have access to a common folder.
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