Can anyone help me with locking down and securing my shared folders.
I currently access my readynas using windows 10 explorer and when i click on a share, for example documents it will ask me for username and password. Once i input the credentials it then gives me access to all the other shares i.e music, videos etc. I want it to ask me for password everytime i access a share folder.
I also found it will only ever ask for my password once, until i restart windows it will ask me again. If i access a share then close windows explorer then access the share again i want it to ask me for password evrytime.
@Maximus360 wrote "Once i input the credentials it then gives me access to all the other shares i.e music, videos etc. I want it to ask me for password everytime i access a share folder."
Hi @Maximus360, you could use different users to access your different shares. One for music, one for videos, etc and the nas will ask you for your credentials correspondingly.
...I want it to ask me for password everytime i access a share folder.
... I also found it will only ever ask for my password once, until i restart windows it will ask me again. If i access a share then close windows explorer then access the share again i want it to ask me for password evrytime.
Your issue is with Windows, not with the ReadyNAS. Windows just doesn't work that way.
You can force the password prompt using two other methods:
Log out of Windows (instead of restarting)
Use the command prompt to close the SMB sessions ( net use * /delete /y )
The command prompt can be put in a script that you can run from the desktop. Let us know if you are interested in that (and need help creating it).
The suggestion about using different user names won't work in Windows. Windows does not allow you to use multiple user names for the same device. It's linked to the same process that retains your password for the device and applies it to all shares. To switch names, you would also have to log out and back in to Windows as well as have no NAS password saved in the Windows credentials manager.
The most you can use is two, one with the IP address and the other with the NAS name, because Windows stores the data for those separately.
This is an unfortunate hole that leaves your NAS vulnerable if you should acquire ransomware, and I don't know why Windows does not allow you to disable it. My ultimate ransomware protection is that my backup NAS only has RSYNC active, not SMB or NFS.
@Sandshark wrote "The suggestion about using different user names won't work in Windows. Windows does not allow you to use multiple user names for the same device. It's linked to the same process that retains your password for the device and applies it to all shares. To switch names, you would also have to log out and back in to Windows as well as have no NAS password saved in the Windows credentials manager."
Unfortunately that is true, as I could verify. Sorry, @Maximus360, for the misleading recommendation, though. It sounded so logical to me. But again, we should probably not be too much surprised by how "klein-weich" (micro-soft) implemented certain functionality into their operating system.
