ReadyNAS 312 Mac OS Finder sees SMB, AFP. Strange user names. "Guest"

Dear flattened:

Like you, I am a total Mac household and when I initially set up my RedyNAS I also had the three listings.

I suspect that not all of your shares are set up to suppport SMB and AFP which is why you are only seeing some of the shares in the AFP selection.  It is also possible that yoi are only seeing some of the folders when not logged in as a listed user because those shares have "Anonymous" access which is what you would see if Finder shows you as a Guest to the server.

I have found that there is no noticable different for my Macs wether I am using AFP or SMB and ultimately I disabled the AFP protocol for the ReadyNAS and things are still working well.  The other thing I did was map my Home folder as a Startup item in my User Profile.  That way, when I start my Mac, it automatically mounts the Home folder on the ReadyNAS and I immediately have access to all of the shares that I should have.

As far as the third listing in Finder, this has been discussed before and I don't think I ever saw a good explanation ofhter than it's just how the system works.  When disabling the AFP protocol, I at least went from three listings in Finder, down to Two.

Hope this helps.

regards,

David