Netgear ReadyNAS Duo V2 & Windows XP Pro SP3

Hi Andy

Thank you for your reply and I sorry that I am only now getting around to answering your post but, as you understand, I have also been looking around other forums, blogs and dealing with Netgear's tech support for a solution to this troubling problem.

OK, first I will answer your questions in the order you have asked them:

You said:

You didn't say if your son uses the same PC but I will assume he does.

Actually he does not, I plan to add my son to my (one man) lan when I get the parts to repair his PC. So at the moment, it is just me.

You also said:

Firstly if your Duo V2 was not new then it may have been upgraded by the previous owner. I recommend a factory reset as a starting point and use RAIDAR to rebuild your disks using X2 redundancy.

My Duo is brand new, I bought the diskless unit in November 2012 and started to use it in December, when I was able to purchase and install a 2TB WD Caviar Green HD. I used XRaid2 to format that HD and informed Netgear the moment I started to add data to the drive and found the "user access rights" were not working properly.

Tech Support talked me through re-installing the O/S without loosing my data, however the re-installation process did not help and the problem still persist (in fact, it made things slightly worse).

By the way, I added my second 2TB WD Caviar Green HD to my NAS in January 2013, no problems were encountered when the NAS system formatted and synced the second drive to the first.

However, I did not take my NAS system all the way down to ground zero, I thought that as a brand new machine, now with my precious data on it (which I could loose) I shouldn't have to.

You advised:

Once rebuilt, make sure you have ticked "Automatic Permissions" on your recreated shares.

As part of my trouble shooting, I have disconnected six of my ten mapped drives and reconnected them, initiated "Automatic Permissions", which did not seem to make any difference, and (based on a suggestion from another forum) renamed part of the mapping name, e.g. renamed Test-Dir on 'nas-XX-XX-XX (192.xxx.xx.xx)' to Test-Dir on 'nas-XX-XX-XX (NAS00)', this helped me to cure the "situation" that was introduced when I reinstalled the NAS O/S.

You also advised:

Next make sure that your ReadyNAS account usernames and passwords match your Windows Accounts and Passwords exactly.

I have done this and found that I could access all of my mapped drives without any hindrance whatsoever, which is not exactly what I want.

You see, I ultimately want all my private shares to be password protected so that should I leave my PC unattended my private documents and multi-media files are still safe and unattainable. Plus, when I finally get my son's Vista PC on my lan I don't know whether the "user access rights" will work properly for him because I certainly don't want him to have unfettered access to everything just "read-only" rights to one or two shares.

You mentioned:

After these changes reboot ensuring you tick "Volume Check" and remap your drives

This is the one thing I have not done yet, I have taken to powering down my NAS before I switch off my PC for the night but not ticked "Volume Check", this I will do tonight.

Finally, you said:

Bear in mind permissions are only on the entire share, not subfolders. Ensure your mappings are on the share itself and not a folder within.

Mapping drives is not a problem, but cheers for the advice anyway.


UK Bob