ReadyNAS Duo Mac OS 12.6 Monterey

 Firmware is 4.1.16

 

@Koloni wrote:

 

In opening Finder I can see the ReadyNAS's two "virtual" disks:

smb://nas-53-CB-3B (CIFS)._smb._tcp.local

afp://nas-53-CB-3B (AFP)._afpovertcp._tcp.local

 

By "Connect to Server ..." the following folders of both volumes show up: backup and media.

 

"Backup" is empty on both volumes, "media" has the following folders in both volumes: BitTorrent, Documents, DVD Projects, Fotos, iMovie Events, Music, Pictures, Videos.

These aren't virtual disks. AFP and SMB are two different protocols used to access the NAS.  In your case, both the backup and media shares (not volumes) are shared using both protocols.  So two different methods of accessing exactly the same folders.

 

FWIW, nas-53-CB-3B is just the name of your NAS - you apparently never renamed it.

Unfortunately there was no explanation of why there would be two different protocols accessing on the same NAS. I didn't bother, as it just kept on working. Neither did I bother to change the nas-53-CB-3B, as I knew that that was the ReadyNAS.

Today while accessing the NAS (on MacBook Pro M1 Monterey) via ForkLift (FileZilla will not give so good overview) I found out that the AFP protocol gave the following files: admin (empty but apparently writeable), backup (empty but apparently writeable), homes (admin folder but apparently writeable), media (8 folders but apparently writeable). The CIFS protocol gave the following: admin, backup, c, home, media. Otherwise both protocols gave the exact amount of space occupied (in GB without any decimals) on the NAS. A little bit funny that CIFS add the "c" folder.

On the other hand the volume (protocol?) nas-53-CB-3B (without any reference to either AFP or CIFS) holds the folders admin (not write protected) and ReadyNAS (write protected). 

Each time I click on the volumes in Finder (on MacBook Pro M1 Monterey), I can access them and see their contents. But when I do the same in ForkLift, I will get a warning: 

"There was a problem connecting to the server “nas-53-cb-3b (afp).”. The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."

Followed by "The item can't be opened  Can't mount network drive: (64)"

After clicking these away I can access the volumes, but there is no indication if the volumes are write-protected or not.

@Koloni wrote:

 

In Finder on my older MacBook Pro (15 inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), 2,2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, MacOS 19.11.6 El Capitan, I find a third ReadyNAS volume nas-53-CB-3B, that contains a folder ReadyNAS.

Likely you are logging into the NAS using different credentials on this MacBook.  ReadyNAS is probably the username - in which case this is called a "home" or "private" folder.  Does it have any data in it.

On my old MacBook Pro ((15 inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), 2,2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, MacOS 19.11.6 El Capitan) there three volumes/protocols:

- nas-53-CB-3B (write-protected) containing the folders admin (empty and writeable) and ReadyNAS (empty and write protected)

- nas-53-CB-3B (AFP) (write-protected) containing admin (empty and writeable), backup (empty and writeable), homes (empty and write-protected), media (empty and write-protected)

- nas-53-CB-3B (CIFS) (write-protected) containing admin (empty and writeable), backup (empty and write-protected), c (empty and write-protected), homes (empty and write-protected), media (empty and write-protected)

 I think you have provided the answers I was looking for. In the meantime I have tried to provide some more aspects from my machines for your further information and knowledge database.

Now I have to save up for a new solution. Probably better to have it saved locally, rather up in the cloud, where it sits in big data centers and consume TW of electricity. What is your hint?