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ReadyNAS 102 - I can't access to the folders with admin password
Dear all, Sorry if this is the wrong section. I can't access to the folder in my readyNAS if I sets permissions as "admin"; When I write the correct password for the admin profile, windows repl...
Dear StephenB,
Thank you for the explanation and the help.
Regards, Cosimo.
As I said, it's a Windows limitation, not a NAS one. I have no idea why the limitation exists, but you are not the first one confounded by it.
There is one way to partly get around it if you need to. You can use one set of credentials for the NAS by name \\NASName\Share and another for the IP address \\ip.of.the.nas\Share because Windows is unaware they are the same device.
Dear Sandshark,
Again, Thank you for the explanation.
I do not need to do that.
What I was trying to do is just to avoid that, others PC connected to the network, for example the PC of a guest of the office, can go on the NAS and take a look at the files.
So, I tried to set up the access to the folder only for the user "admin" but as you know this doesn't work.
My understanding, now, is that I was accessing to the NAS as "PC1" that is the name of my windows account, as it was for example one other PC on the network, for example PC2. Both PC1 and PC2 access to the NAS as "anonymous".
But, since I do not want "anonymous" PCs to access on my NAS, how can I do that? I would like that my Pc is the only one that access directly to the NAS; the others, instead, they can access only if I let them know the password, or, if I setup an additional account on the NAS for them.
Anyway, thank you for the patience!
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