Access by device name, get rid of SMB 3.5.21

StephenB wrote:
if you use \NASbox\admin as the user name, and the NAS admin password, are you getting access? I realize that is not what you want. It still would be helpful to know if it works. Also, when you say "passwords are not acceptable" do you really mean "passwords are not accepted"?

THE CHANGE FROM GROUP TO SHARE SECURITY MODEL
In Group security mode, I had access as admin with the admin password.
In 6 years of prior usage I just accessed my shares with **no** password challenge.
I must have been the SHARE security mode -- a default I neither paid attention to nor documented :oops:
I put the machine back into SHARE mode, and checked to apply the change to the contents of that share . . . took quite a while for the confirmation pop-up.
I did not specify any password. The NASbox would not take "blank" for an answer, and no other password in use around here was accepted either.

TELL THE BOX YOUR PWD
I then entered a pwd in the FrontView page imaged above. I'm still challenged for a pwd, but now I have one.
In all those years gone by, I was not challenged by the NAS server on a Windows machine -- the Windows machine just saw the Workgroup NAS and entered the share.

The main problem here is ignorance, not NASbox technology.
--jerry-va