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Accessing shares with multiple users
Hey all, I am at my wits' end. I have had my RN 516 for a long time and never had any problems accessing shares that I noted; however, in going over some long pending maintenance tasks, I realized t...
Success!!!!!!
The final piece of the puzzle was in Windows Features, of all things. Once I enabled SMB 1.0 / CIFS File Sharing Support, everything worked. Why I was able to access shares without this enabled, who knows, but I definitely have proper permission-based accees!
Thank you rn_enthusiast and StephenB for your help!
To anyone else reading this thread: I am marking this post with the missing Windows Feature as the solution, but please read rn_enthusiast 's post above, as that took care of one of the other issues (involving a mapped drive) as well.
reseune wrote:
Why I was able to access shares without this enabled, who knows,
It probably is worth figuring out.
Most likely is that you've enabled another sharing protocol on the NAS that the PC was able to use - and that sharing protocol had more permissive access controls.
For instance, NFS might have been enabled on the PC (also in "turn windows features on or off"), and also enabled on the NAS shares.
StephenB wrote:
reseune wrote:Why I was able to access shares without this enabled, who knows,
It probably is worth figuring out.
Most likely is that you've enabled another sharing protocol on the NAS that the PC was able to use - and that sharing protocol had more permissive access controls.
For instance, NFS might have been enabled on the PC (also in "turn windows features on or off"), and also enabled on the NAS shares.
All of my shares are SMB, most only SMB. One share (the Home folder) is also NFS. Two media shares are also DLNA. The rest were only SMB with different permissions, some single user, some Admin only, some for Everyone, and one Anonymous.
Before I switched SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support on, all of my devices had Services for NFS and SMB Direct enabled. As I mentioned above, enabling SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support resolved my issue.
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