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Bill_CTS
Jul 21, 2016Aspirant
What is the difference between home folders and home?
Hello- When I go to the web interface and choose shares, there a file tree appears with Data at the top. One of the choices under that is Home Folders. (Pic 1 ) I can change the settings on ...
StephenB
Jul 21, 2016Guru - Experienced User
The home folder for each user is created when the user connects to the NAS for instance using Windows Explorer) using those credentials.
Did the missing users ever do that?
Bill_CTS
Jul 22, 2016Aspirant
I realize the issue here is htat I have been making a mistake in permissions.
Users have been accessing the Documents folder as a Guest. They have not had to sign in. When I removed Guest access and more fienly tuned the access permissions, then users had to sign in with their passwords... and then Home Folders were created.
Thank you for responding to my issue.
Bill
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