Password Protected Share?

[UnBeastRaid]

Hello, I would like to know what the best of going about creating a password protected share for sensitive information?

 

At the moment, anyone on my home network can access any share. I would like to create one that requires credentials.

 

Your help is greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks

Edited September 23, 2021 by UnBeastRaid

[itimpi]

UnRaid security works at the user level so set the security for the share to ‘Private’ and then you can control which users have access to it and what type of access.  Does this not meet your needs?

[UnBeastRaid]

The way I have my server setup is with only a root user (me). My unraid server is visible on the home network and can be accessed by the family. Their PC's don't require a login to access the server. 

 

I just tried creating a user with credentials and access to the share, however, when accessed Windows and it's credential manager always seems to ruin things. There is only one username and password for the new user I just created on Unraid, but windows wont accept the credentials and denies me access.

 

Not sure what's going on.

[itimpi]

25 minutes ago, UnBeastRaid said:

The way I have my server setup is with only a root user (me). My unraid server is visible on the home network and can be accessed by the family. Their PC's don't require a login to access the server. 

 

I just tried creating a user with credentials and access to the share, however, when accessed Windows and it's credential manager always seems to ruin things. There is only one username and password for the new user I just created on Unraid, but windows wont accept the credentials and denies me access.

 

Not sure what's going on.

The ‘root’ user is purely for admin purposes and cannot be used as the username for accessing shares.

 

if you want a private share then you are going to need to sort out the Windows side.    It is critical that the first access to a share on the server after booting Windows is done using the username/password you set up for private access as a quirk of Windows is that it will not allow two sets of credentials (e.g. guest plus private user) to be used to the same server - and it gives misleading error messages about the username/password being invalid if you try.

[Frank1940]

For complete instructions on how to setup Windows and Unraid with secured shares, see here: