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aegon
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Mar 11, 2021
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New to Netgear rn31400

Hi All i am new to this, i have been reading the manual and googling -- but i am stumped .. on a few things.  i have ReadyNAS RN31400 - and using windows 10 sorry for the life of me i every time i...
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    StephenB
    Mar 16, 2021

    aegon wrote:

    i am not using the default admin credentials, i was unable to connect to the mapped drive with the default admin credentials.

     


    Correct, the default password won't work, though you can use admin credentials after you change the password (which you really should do).

     


    aegon wrote:

     

    when i created the user however i did add it to the admin group, and then i was able to connect to the mapped drive of my new share. (not the one the system created when creating the user)

     


    Same story.  Don't use a user in the admin group, and you won't see home or data.

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