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Must enter username/password to access NAS
Hello, I have 3 PC machines running Windows. With 2 of them I do not need to enter an username/password when accessing the network drive through explorer. On one of the machines, which is comple...
There is a tick box in the shares tab on the configure panel, that says 'allow anonymous access' if that is ticked, it should give access to anyone without credentials. I just sorted this out for myself, so perhaps that was the issue for you too.
I just found a solution. I don't understand WHY I have to do this though.
To get it working:
1. Open NAS admin and click "accounts", then "new user"
2. I named my user: "user" and set password: "password". Keep it simple.. the rest I didn't touch
3. Now that we have a user - open Windows Credentials Manager
4. I created an account for both my IP (192.168.1.x) and my NAS (\\NAS)
I then rebooted both the NAS and the PC. Probably not needed but just in case.
This did the trick. But as I said above.. I don't know why I had to do this on this PC. Windows is completely reinstalled so there shouldn't be any old settings lying around.
To get it working:
1. Open NAS admin and click "accounts", then "new user"
2. I named my user: "user" and set password: "password". Keep it simple.. the rest I didn't touch
3. Now that we have a user - open Windows Credentials Manager
4. I created an account for both my IP (192.168.1.x) and my NAS (\\NAS)
I then rebooted both the NAS and the PC. Probably not needed but just in case.
This did the trick. But as I said above.. I don't know why I had to do this on this PC. Windows is completely reinstalled so there shouldn't be any old settings lying around.
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