I'd like each user registered in my Synology'S DSM to have a home folder - accessible through the Windows file manager over the network. I understand that's what the user home service is for in advanced settings in user management.
Regarding permissions, I expected the permissions for home folders to be such that every user can either read or write to only their own folder.
Regarding access through the file manager I would expect to see one of two things:
A) I can see only the "home" folder in the file manager, and it's my personal one - other users' home folders are not visible to me (but in this scenario, how will the NAS know which user I am?)
B) I can see the "homes" folder in the file manager, and when I click, I am asked to authenticate with my DSM user credentials. Depending on whether I provide admin or regular user credentials here, I am able to see either all the users' home folders or just my own.
However, I'm experiencing problems with permissions here. Access to the NAS files should go over the Windows 10 file manager. Here's the situation I'm actually finding:
When accessing the NAS share over \my-NAS-name
- the "homes" folder is visible to everyone
- I can browse all the folders of all the users, there's no pop-up dialog asking for my login.
I tried to fix that by denying the users group access to the "homes" share, but that results in access being denied to all logins but the admin.
Well the latter is the part that makes sense. What does not is that when I grant the users group read/write permission for the "homes" share, the file manager ceases to ask me who I am. That is the same if I apply read-only permissions to the group, except writing something in the folder is denied: "you must have permission to do this" (rather than presenting a pop-up dialog that asks me who I am).
I guess I don't understand how DSM verifies who is trying to access a share through Windows file manager.
How do I set this up correctly?
