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Why can I now see C?
Hi
I bought an Ultra 4 about a week ago. I set up media sharing and added another folder. My root view on my NAS had 'media' and 'Applications'.
I decided to have a crack at installing the Air Video server add on but had no joy so I uninstalled it. I noticed it added 4 other folders to the root view (C, Admin, Home and Webroot) and I managed to get rid of 3 of them.
Now I am left with my two original folders and one called C. I don't really want my wife and kids playing around and doing some thing stupid so want to keep it nice and simple for them and hide that C folder. While its not a major bugbear to me, how do I hide/remove it? I have searched up and down and I don't really want to factory reset it and I do not use the users/groups functions. At my place, everyone can see the same things, no permissions required.
I profess to have no Linux knowledge and tried to search the forum but C is too short a search term. Any help with explanations would be great!
I bought an Ultra 4 about a week ago. I set up media sharing and added another folder. My root view on my NAS had 'media' and 'Applications'.
I decided to have a crack at installing the Air Video server add on but had no joy so I uninstalled it. I noticed it added 4 other folders to the root view (C, Admin, Home and Webroot) and I managed to get rid of 3 of them.
Now I am left with my two original folders and one called C. I don't really want my wife and kids playing around and doing some thing stupid so want to keep it nice and simple for them and hide that C folder. While its not a major bugbear to me, how do I hide/remove it? I have searched up and down and I don't really want to factory reset it and I do not use the users/groups functions. At my place, everyone can see the same things, no permissions required.
I profess to have no Linux knowledge and tried to search the forum but C is too short a search term. Any help with explanations would be great!
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- Don't login as admin and you won't see C, home or admin shares
The "admin" (Frontview) user when logged in via CIFS/SMB (i.e. \\ip.address.of.nas in Windows) can see the data volume as a share to access all the data on the NAS, the "home" share to access all home shares and the "admin" share (home share for the "admin" user). - Hi
Thank you for taking the time to reply to a new poster. I appreciate you explanation and help.
I have to profess I find it odd because I was previously signed as admin and you said and never saw it. I shall just educate the wife and kids not to go fiddling in there.
Thank you - If I were you i'd create own users for your wife and children. If you match the username and password of the machine with the username and password on the NAS they wont need to log in at all, given that they have their own users.
You are perhaps assuming that they have their own PCs. At least for us, the "family" PC has only one login. (We have individual laptops as well, but no one would bother to log out/log back in to the family desktop).Slasky wrote: If I were you i'd create own users for your wife and children. If you match the username and password of the machine with the username and password on the NAS they wont need to log in at all, given that they have their own users. - Not really, I'm assuming they have a common computer, but creating new users there won't take long, and you can even restrict access to installing programs and such for the kids if nescessary. You really don't have to set a password either, and if you are running Windows Vista or newer, one can easily change user without the need of logging off.
But since he's logging in as admin, there is a login-prompt. The only backside to logging in that way, is that windows remembers the credentials. This can be bypassed by setting an option in control panel (can't remember where atm, but its described somewhere on this forum). - Well, based on my experience if the computer isn't locked, the family will use whatever logon is current.
You can manage the credentials in Windows 7 and Vista using the control panel credential manager. For temporary admin usage, you can open a command box and use the "net use" command to map the ReadyNAS C drive (using net use /delete when done). - Well that's true, and to bypass that issue, you can simply press windows key + L efficiently locking the computer, and forcing the others to log on as their user :)
That works. We just share the single logon.Slasky wrote: Well that's true, and to bypass that issue, you can simply press windows key + L efficiently locking the computer, and forcing the others to log on as their user :)
Either way, you can prevent the family from having admin access to the NAS with a little care.
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