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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 ...
Before seeing your responses (so I haven't tried those suggestions), I tried (on a hunch) to change my password in the NAS frontview utility and my windows account to something a lot simpler and shorter - qwer. I then disconnected the network drives in Windows, restarted, then tried again.
This time, using the new user credentials, I can access the share without having to resort to the admin credentials. The restrictions are all properly applied too, so it seemed to work perfectly.
I thought maybe the password I was using originally was either too long or the utility simply didn't support wildcards. But then I decided to change back to my original password to see if it would still work and it does. So it doesn't seem to be the password that was causing the issue. No idea how it was fixed though.
I will try now to do the same on another PC I was having the same problem on and get back to you.
This time, using the new user credentials, I can access the share without having to resort to the admin credentials. The restrictions are all properly applied too, so it seemed to work perfectly.
I thought maybe the password I was using originally was either too long or the utility simply didn't support wildcards. But then I decided to change back to my original password to see if it would still work and it does. So it doesn't seem to be the password that was causing the issue. No idea how it was fixed though.
I will try now to do the same on another PC I was having the same problem on and get back to you.
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