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Network path was not found
I have 2 similarly configured ReadyNAS 2312 units and am getting a "Network path was not found" error when I try to connect to one of them from Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 without spe...
Unfortunately the backup still fails to the troublesome NAS even with credentials stored in the Windows Credential Manager. I have run out of things to try other than offloading all of the data from the NAS, reconfiguring it (and have it hopefully work) and copying back the data. One thing that was different about the bad NAS is that it was originally setup with AD integration, then that was removed and cloud access was added, then that was removed and local accounts are all that are enabled now with the same settings as the NAS that works correctly. Perhaps there are some hidden remnants of settings from the older configurations that are messing things up.
I may have found out what is behind my misbehaving NAS. On the bad NAS the following lines are in the Samba smb.conf file (space added between the ":" and the "o" since I can't figure out how to avoid a :o):
#dashboard: allow trusted domains = 0
dos charset = CP1252
hostname lookups = 0
map to guest = bad user
oplocks = 1
spotlight:fts = 1
#dashboard:#dashboard: orgunit =
#dashboard:#dashboard:no_sync_ads = 0
But the good NAS has the following lines:
#dashboard: allow trusted domains =
dos charset = CP1252
hostname lookups = 0
map to guest = never
oplocks = 1
spotlight:fts = 1
#dashboard:#dashboard: orgunit =
#dashboard:#dashboard:no_sync_ads =
It looks like the bad NAS is configured to assign the guest account if there are no locally matching credentials (bad user) rather than denying access so that credentials can be specified. I would like to change this config, but I don't want to modify the config files directly as they say: "This file is auto-generated. Do not modify!". Is there a way from the GUI to get the bad NAS to change its Samba config to match the Samba config good NAS? I searched everywhere that I could think of in the GUI, but can't find where to change this. I suspect that these lines a a remnant from when the NAS was previously setup for AD or cloud integration.
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