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Access by device name, get rid of SMB 3.5.21
Oh joy, 2 NASboxes with CIFs-protocol-based shares. "NASbox2" appears on all my Windows PCs as "NASbox2 (NASbox2)" and access proceeds seamlessly without password challenges. NASbox (the first one) ...
StephenB wrote:
So you are prompted for a password only (and cannot specify an user name)?
jerry-va: Yes. On the pwd challenge pop-up, the user is greyed-out and filled in, Nasbox\Guest. It used to be Nasbox\Admin before I went to "nobody, nogroup" for more open access. I'm willing to go back to better security once I know how.
And the password you specified can now be entered?
jerry-va: Yes.
Did you try setting a password for the share, and then clearing it?
jerry-va: Thanks, I'd love to try this first thing tomorrow (bedtime around here). Also, after going to the forum for help, I didn't want to make a whole lot of changes in the situation. BTW, having entered my pwd once, I don't have to enter it again . . . but I'm still not clear on when the session ends . . . with a client PC reboot surely.
BTW, my NAS are all in user security mode, and I do not need to enter passwords for any of them. Guest access is enabled on the CIFS path, and I entered my NAS admin credentials into the Windows credential manager on each pc.
jerry-va: I'm happy to use a better security mode once the fear of forever losing everything subsides; e.g., by having a terabyte owned by a user/group that I make disappear with a switch between SHARE and USER modes . . . We have WinXP (and even one Windows2000 machine), so there may be an appropriate NET USE command but there is no Windows Credential Manager. A couple Windows7 disks recently arrived (can't find a retail version, waited too long, only OEM versions out there now), but . . . other issues more pressing.
Thanks for looking at this. I wish the forum search engine did phrases, I'm sure many others have gone around this block faster than I can.
--jerry-va
So you are prompted for a password only (and cannot specify an user name)?
jerry-va: Yes. On the pwd challenge pop-up, the user is greyed-out and filled in, Nasbox\Guest. It used to be Nasbox\Admin before I went to "nobody, nogroup" for more open access. I'm willing to go back to better security once I know how.
And the password you specified can now be entered?
jerry-va: Yes.
Did you try setting a password for the share, and then clearing it?
jerry-va: Thanks, I'd love to try this first thing tomorrow (bedtime around here). Also, after going to the forum for help, I didn't want to make a whole lot of changes in the situation. BTW, having entered my pwd once, I don't have to enter it again . . . but I'm still not clear on when the session ends . . . with a client PC reboot surely.
BTW, my NAS are all in user security mode, and I do not need to enter passwords for any of them. Guest access is enabled on the CIFS path, and I entered my NAS admin credentials into the Windows credential manager on each pc.
jerry-va: I'm happy to use a better security mode once the fear of forever losing everything subsides; e.g., by having a terabyte owned by a user/group that I make disappear with a switch between SHARE and USER modes . . . We have WinXP (and even one Windows2000 machine), so there may be an appropriate NET USE command but there is no Windows Credential Manager. A couple Windows7 disks recently arrived (can't find a retail version, waited too long, only OEM versions out there now), but . . . other issues more pressing.
Thanks for looking at this. I wish the forum search engine did phrases, I'm sure many others have gone around this block faster than I can.
--jerry-va
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