Errorbit wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 5:43 am
What's going on on this Nas ????
Need help....sos
When you disable the admin user as you did, it's not possible to login to the NAS as that user. But the admin user account still exists on the NAS and is still used to perform system-level operations on and by the NAS itself. It's essential to the OS itself. Since you switched to Linux at home, you can easily understand this: the admin user on QNAP NAS is just a different name for the root user (UID 0). Pretty much all services and apps run as the admin/root user on QNAP NASes.
I suspect the weird admin activity you're seeing is caused by Virtualization Station compounded with bugs in the QuLog Center app, but I don't use VS myself, so can't compare with my own experience. I'd suggest you contact QNAP tech support (file a ticket) so they can give you an official explanation.
Lastly, hearing the spinning hard disks making grinding noises while you're not actively using the NAS, is not necessarily an indication of suspicious/malicious activity. If the drives are making noises without the front HD activity lights blinking at the same time, it's just the drives performing their automatic self-check and maintenance routine on their own - which happens more or less often and takes more or less time depending on disk type/firmware/model/brand. If the front HD lights are blinking at the same time, it could be a process performing some maintenance on their own. For example, if you leave Windows running in a VM on the NAS, it will perform all kinds of scheduled maintenance tasks (trim logs, optimize filesystems, clean up temporary files, gather telemetry info and send it to MS, scan for and download updates, etc. etc.) that will cause disk activity.
