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ReadyNAS 312 Mac OS Finder sees SMB, AFP. Strange user names. "Guest"
Hello,
Our ReadyNAS appears in 3 ways in the "Shared" section of finder
ReadyNAS (AFP) : If connected as the correct user for the AFP, only the shares that the user has available to them are visible.
ReadyNAS (SMB): If connected as the correct user for SMB, all shares are visible - but Finder seems to shut off when accessing an unshared folder.
ReadyNAS : Is this the same as SMB or AFP? It seems to list all devices.
I also, if not connected as the correct user, or the connection drops, I can get randomly named "Connected as:" (e.g. JPE5JB-336-boffice) with access.
I also sometimes get connected as "guest".
Who are these odd users names - can it be stopped, is it a security threat?
Can I disable "guest"?
This is a Mac house so I'd like AFP only, but ReadyCloud is needed to ideally it should be SMB only but I want to know if the ReadyNAS(SMB) listing behaviour is normal.
Thanks
Andy.
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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
dschwartzer wrote:
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.
FInder handles SMB and AFP advertisements separately - I guess it could infer that they both refer to the same share, but in general there could be cases where that is not the case.
In Windows, enabling DLNA creates its own advertisement (as a "media server"). Finder could showing that too.
- Thanks for the advice.
What about the odd usenames?
Is it possible to prevent access as 'guest'. I have tried, via telephone support (I'm a powershift partner) changing file access permissions to admin (owner) and user (group) for these shares, unticked "guest" and it has blocked Readycloud users from modifying the content! Are Readycloud users "guests"?
It's getting messy.
Andy.
flattened wrote:
Is it possible to prevent access as 'guest'In general you should do this with network access permissions, not with file access permissions.
So try going into network access, and disable anonymous access, and everyone access there. Then enable read/write access for the groups you want.
Network access is set per protocol, so you need to do this both for SMB and AFP.
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