Basic NAS - any security?

Does anybody use a basic form of NAS out there with file security on it.

My very useful USB-drive home-made NAS works a treat apart from there being
no user security which I'd like to implement (as on a wi-fi enable lan)
- driven off the samba built-in server - but I can't enable controlled file
sharing or any form of locking I know of.

Few accesses, not for (secure) backup but file access across different
machines on at different times/alternate copy of files.
Mix of win98/xp.

I'm trying to avoid a separate box with permanently running harddrives &
PSUs & fans etc.

No need for raid (any), hot swapping drives, large drives. Useful if
honours dhcp (any class range) but can give fix ip no prob.

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> Does anybody use a basic form of NAS out there with file security on it.
>
> My very useful USB-drive home-made NAS works a treat apart from there being
> no user security which I'd like to implement (as on a wi-fi enable lan)
> - driven off the samba built-in server - but I can't enable controlled file
> sharing or any form of locking I know of.
>
> Few accesses, not for (secure) backup but file access across different
> machines on at different times/alternate copy of files.
> Mix of win98/xp.
>
> I'm trying to avoid a separate box with permanently running harddrives &
> PSUs & fans etc.
>
> No need for raid (any), hot swapping drives, large drives. Useful if
> honours dhcp (any class range) but can give fix ip no prob.

The buffalo linkstation ticks all the boxes I think. You can set up
users who can or cannot access any shared folders on the device. For
example if you set up 3 shares, you could grant user A full access to
all 3 folders, user b read-only access and user C can only access share2
etc.
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Regards
Jon