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Cannot access USB disk; nwk password required
I have had a possible disk failure on a hard disk attached to the Netgear Readynas server. After having swapped the possibly failing HD with a new one I can no longer access the USB drive. If I try...
Stephen,
Guest access
There is no such setting in my Frontview.
Here's what I have:
- Share Access Restrictions, which has only one setting: "Host allowed access" to restrict access to certain hosts. It is not ticked. No mention of "guest" here.
- Share Display Option. To hide the share
- Recycle bin (not ticked)
- Opportunistic Locking (not ticked)
Change group to "nogroup"
I tried with "nogroup". Made no change. Still asks for network password.
I also tried with having nothing in that field (i.e. leaving it blank). Was not accepted. Was reset to root.
"Set ownership and permission"
Ticked the box and clicked "apply". No change. Still not accessible.
...
It is very strange how one USB disk is accessible without any problem but the other, that is configured identically, is not.
Also interesting to note that the NAS itself can access the USB disk. I run a backup from the NAS disks with the USB disks as destination and that backup did run as it should, writing to the USB disk.
Guest access
There is no such setting in my Frontview.
Here's what I have:
- Share Access Restrictions, which has only one setting: "Host allowed access" to restrict access to certain hosts. It is not ticked. No mention of "guest" here.
- Share Display Option. To hide the share
- Recycle bin (not ticked)
- Opportunistic Locking (not ticked)
Change group to "nogroup"
I tried with "nogroup". Made no change. Still asks for network password.
I also tried with having nothing in that field (i.e. leaving it blank). Was not accepted. Was reset to root.
"Set ownership and permission"
Ticked the box and clicked "apply". No change. Still not accessible.
...
It is very strange how one USB disk is accessible without any problem but the other, that is configured identically, is not.
Also interesting to note that the NAS itself can access the USB disk. I run a backup from the NAS disks with the USB disks as destination and that backup did run as it should, writing to the USB disk.
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