Permissions keep changing on a NAS volume?

I have an 8TB NAS with a few shares set up. Randomly, a padlock appeared on the lower left corner of one of the shares' icon (my media share). I can still access the share fine. If I SSH into the NAS via Cyberduck, the permissions for the media share say "unknown". I can change them to 777 recursively and the padlock disappears, for a few days, but eventually it comes back. No one else has access to the share. I don't get it.
Any ideas?

That's doesn't sound like an issue with your Mac. What did the NAS vendor's tech support tell you?

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