Premissions and CryptoLocker

I did not understand your notion but with your explanation it is a good idea that makes sense. That said, the workstation backup software is the tail that wags this dog. The NAS is the repository for the backup data that both resides on the NAS itself and from the workstations. I can establish a nightly backup of the 'public' NAS data to a 'hidden' area on the same or different NAS. As I understand the backup capability of the ReadyNAS it is not possible for the ReadyNAS to 'reach out' to the various workstation shares and grab their data. The workstation backup software has to initiate that process and it does not have any FTP client capability.

Possibly I do not understand your suggestion.

I am still checking with the workstation backup software supplier to see if they will support some version of UNC network addresing.