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1. I want to prevent it from crawling. Right now it's wide open. I can type in the UNC path or drive letter if it's mapped. and it will go right in. This was done years ago. I now realize this is a security risk.

2. If I add authentication to the NAS, remove the mappings from all of the PCs, remove ...

My NAS devices do not support FTP unfortunately, only SMB up to version 3.

My FFS jobs are set to update, not mirror. Encrypted files would have a different name/extension. Backing up these encrypted files would not affect unencrypted files already on the NAS.

What I want to prevent is ransomware ...

As protection against ransomware I would like to tighten up security and access to my NAS devices.

I run automated backups/syncs for my file servers at work. We use the donation edition of FFS.
My NAS devices do have authentication but as it stands now I am not using it.
I am using mapped drives ...