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smst
Aspirant
Sep 03, 2015
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Mapping one drive to all SMB shares in Windows 7

Hi all,   I'm setting up my brand new RN104 and have got a bit stuck with SMB.   I have a bunch of shared folders (including the defaults of Music and Video).  I can access the parent of those sh...
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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Sep 03, 2015

    Try 

    net use x: \\192.168.65.6\data /user:admin password

     

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smst
Aspirant
Sep 03, 2015

Thanks Stephen, that's perfect. Was I being a bit dense with this one, or is that magic share a bit hidden?

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 03, 2015

data is the OS6 default volume when you use xraid.  For OS4 it is C.

 

You can browse \\nasname alone from windows file explorer, but you need to specify a share or volume name with the net use command line.

 

Note you can only access the volume if you are using the NAS admin credentials.  With other credentials you need to specify a share.

 

 

So it is a bit hidden.  Netgear intends full volume access to be used for administrative purposes.  If you drag/drop files into the various shares via the mapped drive you will find that the file permissions end up set a bit differently from when you drag/drop into \\nas\sharename directly.  

 

That's not a problem if you use admin credentials consistently, but if you mix admin credentials with user credentials you'll find that users might not be able to edit or delete the files you copied as admin.

 

  • smst's avatar
    smst
    Aspirant
    Sep 05, 2015
    StephenB wrote:

     

    So it is a bit hidden.  Netgear intends full volume access to be used for administrative purposes.  If you drag/drop files into the various shares via the mapped drive you will find that the file permissions end up set a bit differently from when you drag/drop into \\nas\sharename directly.  

     

    That's not a problem if you use admin credentials consistently, but if you mix admin credentials with user credentials you'll find that users might not be able to edit or delete the files you copied as admin.

    That's very useful to remember, thanks.

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