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b3nb123
May 27, 2016Tutor
Can't browse ReadyNAS from Windows since upgrade
I'm not a very experienced user, I'm still in the early days of settingn up my NAS. I plugged in and copied lots of files from a USB drive to my NAS, and had been accessing it via windwos file explor...
- Jun 01, 2016
b3nb123 wrote:
EDIT - HaNG ON A MINUTE! When I tried it a minute ago I added a new credential using the IP of the readynas. I just added a new one again using READYNAS in capitals (The exact device name on the network) and now I'm in!
... However Windows Backup, while letting me find the location, won't let me use it
"verify the path points to a correct network location and that the supplied credentials can be used for write access to the folder" (Validation information class requested was invalid . (0x80070544)Try using READYNAS\admin as the username in the windows credential. The NAS doesn't care about the READYNAS\ prefix, but I have some some postings that suggests that Windows backup does.
b3nb123
May 31, 2016Tutor
I did turn off ipv6, then went back to the shares page and turned off then back on the shares (didn't understand what locally Map the shares meant!) but still the admin page and the readynas app are the only things that can access the folders properly.
In 'this pc' I can double click readynas and get a few folders, a kind of simplified set, videos, pictures etc, but it isn't the complete set of all the folders I have in admin.
Accessing the readynas under 'network', or trying to set up a folder location for a backup via windows backup, or trying to access the folders via ftp or via dlna all completely lock me out.
In 'this pc' I can double click readynas and get a few folders, a kind of simplified set, videos, pictures etc, but it isn't the complete set of all the folders I have in admin.
Accessing the readynas under 'network', or trying to set up a folder location for a backup via windows backup, or trying to access the folders via ftp or via dlna all completely lock me out.
StephenB
May 31, 2016Guru - Experienced User
Try going into windows credential manager and destroying any credentials that exist for the NAS. Then create a windows credential using the NAS admin account (username=admin, password=nasadminpassword)
- b3nb123Jun 01, 2016Tutor
Thanks, I've just tried your suggestion, but It's the same. The admin web interface can see everything, as can the Windows app, but I can't access it as a network location via windows explorer, or any dlna folders via a dlna device
- b3nb123Jun 01, 2016Tutor
EDIT - HaNG ON A MINUTE! When I tried it a minute ago I added a new credential using the IP of the readynas. I just added a new one again using READYNAS in capitals (The exact device name on the network) and now I'm in!
... However Windows Backup, while letting me find the location, won't let me use it
"verify the path points to a correct network location and that the supplied credentials can be used for write access to the folder" (Validation information class requested was invalid . (0x80070544)- StephenBJun 01, 2016Guru - Experienced User
b3nb123 wrote:
EDIT - HaNG ON A MINUTE! When I tried it a minute ago I added a new credential using the IP of the readynas. I just added a new one again using READYNAS in capitals (The exact device name on the network) and now I'm in!
... However Windows Backup, while letting me find the location, won't let me use it
"verify the path points to a correct network location and that the supplied credentials can be used for write access to the folder" (Validation information class requested was invalid . (0x80070544)Try using READYNAS\admin as the username in the windows credential. The NAS doesn't care about the READYNAS\ prefix, but I have some some postings that suggests that Windows backup does.
- b3nb123Jun 02, 2016Tutor
Awesome, thanks! This works great now!
To clarify - I added my own credential in 'Windows Credential Manager':
Network address READYNAS (Not the IP as I thought!)
username READYNAS\admin (or just admin) (Not my admin login email address as I thought!)password (My usual admin password)
Now windows has full access to the NAS!
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