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A Hidden Share has been lost after a Domain Controller chang
Hoping someone can help. I had a share that was both hidden and had restricted access via the CIFS settings.
Recently my server that was the domain controller failed and had to be rebuilt, which took some time. During the rebuild process, the technician decided to change the Domain name, to shorten it to prevent future issues with long path names. I knew that I would have to reconnent all devices, but did not see a problem with this action.
However when trying to reconnect, I keep having CIF issues, starting something along the lines that it could not establish a CIFS service. This was occuring when I was trying to apply my existing security settings which was ADS. I could see in the Realm field, the old domain name, but could not access it. I have since changed the setting to ADS instead of Domain, but this has not achieved anything. I have not rebooted the device since.
I swapped the security settings to a Share, instead of an ADS for a day, then the security settings allowed me to reconnect with a Domain secuirty mode. The hidden share was diplayed as being available, but when I accessed it, there was no data displayed. I have removed the hidden option and the restricted access settings, but the folder still displays as empty.
I have checked the account settings for the user who used the share (me) and it is showing a UID of 35018 and used space of 5192.
To complicate matters, as I could not access the ReadyNAS during the period when the domain controller was offf line, I took the opportunity to upgrade the HDD's to a larger size, by swapping them out 1 by 1 and letting the ReasdyNAS rebild & resync, taking some 17 hours.
Hope someone can offer suggestions, as I think the data should still be there, but I just cannot access it
Recently my server that was the domain controller failed and had to be rebuilt, which took some time. During the rebuild process, the technician decided to change the Domain name, to shorten it to prevent future issues with long path names. I knew that I would have to reconnent all devices, but did not see a problem with this action.
However when trying to reconnect, I keep having CIF issues, starting something along the lines that it could not establish a CIFS service. This was occuring when I was trying to apply my existing security settings which was ADS. I could see in the Realm field, the old domain name, but could not access it. I have since changed the setting to ADS instead of Domain, but this has not achieved anything. I have not rebooted the device since.
I swapped the security settings to a Share, instead of an ADS for a day, then the security settings allowed me to reconnect with a Domain secuirty mode. The hidden share was diplayed as being available, but when I accessed it, there was no data displayed. I have removed the hidden option and the restricted access settings, but the folder still displays as empty.
I have checked the account settings for the user who used the share (me) and it is showing a UID of 35018 and used space of 5192.
To complicate matters, as I could not access the ReadyNAS during the period when the domain controller was offf line, I took the opportunity to upgrade the HDD's to a larger size, by swapping them out 1 by 1 and letting the ReasdyNAS rebild & resync, taking some 17 hours.
Hope someone can offer suggestions, as I think the data should still be there, but I just cannot access it
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- I'm assuming this is a basic share set from Frontview and it's the CIFS properties under share permissions that you used to configure it.
Browse to the advanced tab when you open the CIFS properties for that share, and check the box that indicates it will reset the permissions of the contents to the above settings(don't change the configuration, just check the box), and hit apply. Once that's done, the data should be accessible. Disjoining a ReadyNAS from a domain doesn't delete data, but depending on how permissions were configured it can render the data inaccessible until you reset the permissions. - Thank you Grevious,
I have been able to locate the "missing" shares in a two step approach.
I ran an app that was postred in a related forum topic and that abled me to view the shares that had been hidden or otherwise no longer displayed.
The share that was hidden was located under folders recorded under the old domain name
There were some other folders that had been created by my elder son, by copying folders up from his PC to the same level as his own share, which were no longer displayed. As these folders were off the root level and had not been created by Frontview, there were no CIFS properties to reset (at least that I could see)
I also used the steps you mention to reset the permissions of the formerly hidden share as well.
I have my all data again and that is the what I was hoping for.
I have some questions on setting the restricted access writes, but I will do some hunting for other posts before I ask them.
Thank you for your help. - A very embarassing reply, the domain controller failed again and is being replaced by a brand new server.
However, I have no idea what that wonderful little app was that unlocked the access to see the other domain folders that was on the NAS drive. I also cannot so far find that "related" topic.
Does anyone have any ideas as to this app? - Connect to \\NAS\c as the admin user. You should see all shares including 'homes' directories, you will find the old domain home directories in there.
- Chirpa,
Thank you. I finally received my new domail controller the other weekend and I have been busy with a number of tasks.
However the new domain controler is using the same domain name as its predessor, so currently I can access the shares and read the files, but cannot write to them.
My current plan is to copy the data to another NAS device and then because the domain name is the same, disconnect the NAS from the former domain, and then try and reconnect to the new domain.
Because the domain names are the dame, I do not know what will happen to the file structure, hence the copying of the data to a new NAS first.
I might ne luck and have the reconnection keep the old structure & files or I might be unluck and have the old structure overwritten by the new structure because of the same name.
It will take me a while because of the amount of data, but better to be safe than sorry I guess.
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