Yeah the WD development and testing of the firmware is bad. Like the v2.x firmware not having a shutdown button even though its mentioned twice in the user manual. Don’t know if the latest v2x firmware released a day or two ago rectified that issue. Or the v4.x firmware bug that duplicates the USB share name causing Safepoint to fail. Or in the past when upgrading the v4.x firmware it locked certain Shares including the Public Share to read only. Like I said above they seem to fix one bug but introduce one more every firmware release.
It appears, at least with the current firmware on my single bay My Cloud that when the USB Share is set to Private and no one is granted access, that Windows File Explorer users are asked for a password to access that Share. Which was the initial complaint that kicked off this thread discussion.