Shares disappeared from specific Windows 10 host

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StephenB wrote:

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nickjames wrote:

You are right -- there are two accounts in use: admin and Nick. They are both admin accounts but nonetheless, different accounts. I *think* I mapped the drive with the Nick account. That could be what is cached but where is it cached?

 

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They might be both in the admin group, but full access to the data volume is limited to the actual admin account.

 

Try going into "home" on the machine using the admin account. See if there is a Nick folder in there.

 

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nickjames wrote:

 

I went through and deleted everything out of the Windows Credential manager yesterday. There was nothing in there that had anything to do with the NAS.

 

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Rather surprising, but possible if you never allowed the PC to save the credentials.

 

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nickjames wrote:

If I reboot my machine, I should always get prompted with username/password for when accessing the share, ie: \\192.168.123.101. It's no longer doing that. It just auto logs me into the share. I think it had something to do with the mapped drive but I can't even see that anymore. Are those credentials saved in the registry my chance?

 

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They are saved by the Windows Credential Manager.

 

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nickjames wrote:

 

How could I work around this? Change the password to the admin account to force an authentication error? Change the IP address of the ReadyNAS? This is a home environment with only one user (me).

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The first thing to make sure that is the NAS shares are set NOT to allow allow anonymous access to the share (click on the share settings wheel in the admin web ui, then Network Access).  

 

Changing account passwords should also help..

 

But from your symptoms, I am thinking that you should double check the Credential Manager.  Make sure you are looking at Windows Credentials.   Here's one from one of my PCs - the only windows credentials stored are for the NAS (one using its name, the other using its IP address).

 

It's worth double-checkidng the "Generic Credentials" section also, as there can be a set of credentials in there also.  

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Thanks for the help but still no dice. Here is a recap for anyone else reading:

• Under Windows Credentials, I've deleted all entries and rebooted, ie: Windows Credentials, Generic Credentials, etc.
• If I log into the same machine that works with the admin account but with the Nick account, everything displays as it should (the root vol, Nick "home folder", and the home folder (Nick is an admin).
  • If I use my SMB disconnect script, it detects the connection and I'm able to disconnect.
  • I can log in and out of the share with "admin" or "nick" and all operates as it should. In fact if I disable the "Nick" user, you can not access the share at all.

I decided to add a manual entry for Windows Credentials. Now when I go to the share it works as it should, however, I don't want this behavior. Additionally, net use doesn't show me actually connected to anything... its really strange. I will keep hunting... something is cached somewhere. At least Credential Manager overrides that cache so I have a workaround.