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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 ...
The owner of the share with group and everyone disabled is one of the users - however even this user cannot connect to the share from their Windows account using their NAS credentials - which are the same as the Windows credentials.
Likewise, the owner of the share (or anyone else) still cannot access the share even when "read/write" is enabled for group and everyone. The only thing that works is to use the admin credentials. This is again the case even when logged into a Windows account with the same credentials.
I have also tried resetting permissions as you explained.
Private home shares is enabled, and I tried disabling it as suggested. However, this has made no difference.
The share names are also not the same as any windows users.
Likewise, the owner of the share (or anyone else) still cannot access the share even when "read/write" is enabled for group and everyone. The only thing that works is to use the admin credentials. This is again the case even when logged into a Windows account with the same credentials.
I have also tried resetting permissions as you explained.
Private home shares is enabled, and I tried disabling it as suggested. However, this has made no difference.
The share names are also not the same as any windows users.
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