Hello, I'm trying to map a drive to my home folder on my pro (6.9.3). I can do it to the "shares" i.e. Media, Back-up. but for any of the "Home Folders", it not working. In the "Map Network Drive" box, I got to "Browse" and navigate to the NAS, but the home folders are not there. If I type it in manually, \\Pro\data or \\Pro\%admin% or \\Pro\fsshare\Dual\home\admin or using it's ip address, I can get to a login, but using the admin credentials it just returns to the login. All permutations I've tried gets me to a login, but it never accepts it. There is stuff in the folders as I can see it via the web admin pages. I've tried it from two different machines with the same result. What the heck am I doing wrong?

You can access your own home folder using your NAS account credentials. If you enter them into the Windows credential manager for the PC, then you can access it automatically, and also map it to a drive letter. The path in file explorer is the same as the path for any share (\\nas-name\username ). If you want to map home itself to a drive letter (so you can see the home folders for all users), then you need to use the NAS admin account for the credentials.

Hello Stephen, Apart from "Windows credential manager" which doesn't seem to be on my machine. That's what I'm doing. Using the NAS admin credentials. So frustrating. Ian

What version of windows are you running? The credential manager goes all the way back to Vista I think. ipb_uk wrote:Using the NAS admin credentials. Try running CMD (windows command prompt), and enter net use * /delete net use t: \\nas-ip-address\data\home /user:admin nas-admin-password Use the actual IP address and admin password of course. Be careful on spaces and the slash direction. This assumes that your data volume is the default ("data") and that you haven't using the default admin password of password. You can use \\nas-ip-address\data\home\username if you only want to map a specific home folder (or \\nas-ip-address\data if you want to map the full data volume)

Hello Stephen. But not as far back as XP!! Anyway I got "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password" Funny that using those very same credentials I can login via frountview and via SSH (shell in a box). Thanks Ian.

Forgot one line in the error I got....... System error 1326 has occurred. Sorry about missing that.

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StephenB
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Aug 30, 2018
You can access your own home folder using your NAS account credentials. If you enter them into the Windows credential manager for the PC, then you can access it automatically, and also map it to a drive letter. The path in file explorer is the same as the path for any share (\\nas-name\username ).

If you want to map home itself to a drive letter (so you can see the home folders for all users), then you need to use the NAS admin account for the credentials.
- ipb_uk
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  Aug 30, 2018
  Hello Stephen, Apart from "Windows credential manager" which doesn't seem to be on my machine. That's what I'm doing. Using the NAS admin credentials. So frustrating. Ian
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Aug 30, 2018
    What version of windows are you running? The credential manager goes all the way back to Vista I think.
    
    ipb_uk wrote:
    Using the NAS admin credentials.
    
    Try running CMD (windows command prompt), and enter
    
    net use * /delete
    
    net use t: \\nas-ip-address\data\home /user:admin nas-admin-password
    
    Use the actual IP address and admin password of course. Be careful on spaces and the slash direction. This assumes that your data volume is the default ("data") and that you haven't using the default admin password of password.
    
    You can use \\nas-ip-address\data\home\username if you only want to map a specific home folder (or \\nas-ip-address\data if you want to map the full data volume)

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