All options for Public folder share are disabled regarding access - looks like it can only be wide open to all users.
How and why would a product like this be implemented and delivered in such a state? USB devices attached to the NAS apparently are also public with full read/write access. Did anyone do ANY use cases at WD? I expect this type of stuff from the myriad of unknown companies out there putting craopla on the market every day, but WD? WD still demands a premium for their products based on reputation and name recognition but then decides to deliver an unfinished, basically a defective product, to market.
I have my public folders all empty but they are open for anyone to fill them up with anything possibliy leading to running out of space on the given volumes.
Hope that the next firmware update will at least have some type of fix for this issue as well.
Unfortunately, this being a user to user forum, no official word from WD would be available regarding this or any other problem on these forums.
Even talking to the WD support, they would just reiterate the same - functionality that is currently available (or not available).
To me, this looks like a needed fix rather than a suggestion for future enhancement from WD.
I need more votes to have get WD to look into implementing the changes requested. For now I have devised my own simple hack (see thread in my post immediately above) but would prefer to see this in the firmware for all.
I bought this NAS (with two WD Red NAS 4TB at the moment) (more than 620€!) last saturday and I like this NAS, but have absurd things that I’m thinking return the WD Cloud EX4 and buy a RAID/JBOD PCI controller for my one of PCs with UBUNTU.
Lords of WD, why is forbidden this option? Do you will add more options for delete, disable share folders… in the next firmware? or I must return this NAS?
If it works properly it should restruct access to Public to the owner/admin and any other user should be denied access to Public.
Done the same thing for the My Book Live andMy Book Live Duo, but the procedure between the My Book and the My Cloud has changed. I’ve been trying to keep the Public folder in place, but altewr the permissions at the file system level so the only users that have access is the the owner/admin and root. This is not to break anything else.
You tweak at your own risk. Let me know how you get on.
The process for the My Cloud, if correctly followed, is reversable as I’ve done it in away where you copy the permissions set on Public at the factory, you create an additional share with the desired permisions and then you copy the ACL of that directory over the ACLs in and in the Public directory.
I agree that having the Public share should be a choice.
I’ve tried. At least if there Must be a Public folder, offer to either have it open or be exclusive to the admin/owner account.
It can’t be that hard to implement? I’ve managed to do it on the My Book Live, My Book Duo and I believe on the My Cloud NAS, which now has a diferent implementation of file system security.
On all the NASs all it needs is one simple option . . .
Somewhat related to this discussion is, WDphotos app can only upload to the Public folder. Is there a place to vote for WDphotos to be able to upload to a private folder like the WDCloud app can?