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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...
Network Access affects SMB share configuration.
File Access permissions affect POSIX.
Turning off Everyone from Network Access doesn't necessarily prompt you for credentials in Explorer, because Windows already sent a slew of credentials when you tried to connect to the share.
Turning off Everyone from File Access can prevent Samba from accessing/browsing files and folders, which can have an undesired affect on access. You should generally leave the UI alone once you configure network access permissions and then use Explorer to set permissions on subfolders/files.
You are not communicating NTFS when you are using a NAS -- Setting permissions over Explorer sets Extended ACL permissions.
If I gave everyone read permissions in File Access then all domain users will be able to read files though wouldn't they?
If you give "Everyone" read permissions, then anyone not matching folder/file's owner/group will only have read access to that folder/file, despite what network access says.
So if User1 creates the file, it's likely that User2'll never be able to edit that one file unless they somehow share the same group given on the files (when Creator Group has read/write).
My recommendation is setup share-level access via Network Access, set everything to read/write Everyone, then use Explorer to set ACLs like you normally would on Windows, and use whichever options you deem necessary to configure.
I only want domain administrators to have access to any share. How can I give Domain Admins and Samba permissions, but not everyone else?
Your recommendation of giving r/w to Everyone would not work because that also gives Domain Users access to the folders.
My suggestion is to have you ignore using "File Access" in the UI and setting permissions as you see fit through Explorer, where you can make more granular permission changes.
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