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Accessing shares with user account
Hello, I have a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 with a single WD Red 3TB drive installed. I am currently having issues gaining access from my Windows 7 PCs to the shares I have created on the drive. I am able ...
If you disable groups and everyone then you will need to set the owner of the share to the user you want to allow access to.
If the owner is admin and you disable group and everyone then you will only be able to access using admin credentials.
I have just tried your other settings on my system ( read only for group and everyone) and it works.
My windows user is abc with a password of def, and there is a user abc on the NAS with the same password. belonging to the group "users" named in the share permissions.
The owner of the share is admin, the share group is "users"
Windows will use 1 set of credentials for each user so you won't be able to access a share with credentials that are different to the current user, you'd need to login as that windows user. If you need to you can check in windows credential manager to see what is being used.
Did you reset the permissions as I explained?
EDIT: do you have private home shares enabled? It's in Security, users and groups, preferences( in drop down list). Disabling home shares is another thing you can try.
Also make sure the share name is not the same as any windows users
If the owner is admin and you disable group and everyone then you will only be able to access using admin credentials.
I have just tried your other settings on my system ( read only for group and everyone) and it works.
My windows user is abc with a password of def, and there is a user abc on the NAS with the same password. belonging to the group "users" named in the share permissions.
The owner of the share is admin, the share group is "users"
Windows will use 1 set of credentials for each user so you won't be able to access a share with credentials that are different to the current user, you'd need to login as that windows user. If you need to you can check in windows credential manager to see what is being used.
Did you reset the permissions as I explained?
EDIT: do you have private home shares enabled? It's in Security, users and groups, preferences( in drop down list). Disabling home shares is another thing you can try.
Also make sure the share name is not the same as any windows users
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