Thanks for the reply, that's what I was afraid of.
I'm currently looking into getting away from window's "use an admin account for everything" and I began questioning the status of my NAS. My network drive is always available to my desktop (whitelisted router IP), and while I read things from it fairly frequently, but I don't do much that requires writes, so I'd rather not leave that open when I don't have to, as anything that got onto my desktop would be able to screw around with my nas as well. Was curious if there was a way to temporarily elevate permissions.
That said, I can't actually lose anything, due to my incremental, and disconnected backups, but I'd rather not have to try and restore all that were it to come to that.
Is there a way to do then when using linux as an accessing OS (using NFS)?