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NV+ Backup to Mac Share
My Windows box that I had my Backup USB drive connected to recently crashed, so I moved the USB drive over to my OSX box. I'm trying to get a backup job to copy from my ReadyNAS share to my OSX shar...
browerjs wrote:
When i tried creating another account, I get Unable to connect. It gets me around Invalid Login.
Does that second account have permission to access the share?
I'm not a mac owner, so I can't offer specifics.
browerjs wrote:
StephenB wrote:
Does that second account have permission to access the share?
It does, I'm able to access it via a windows box.
Then the NAS should be able to access it too, using the same credentials.
It could be an SMB incompabitility - you might have to disable SMB signing on the mac. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205926
StephenB wrote:
browerjs wrote:
StephenB wrote:Does that second account have permission to access the share?
It does, I'm able to access it via a windows box.
Then the NAS should be able to access it too, using the same credentials.
It could be an SMB incompabitility - you might have to disable SMB signing on the mac. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205926
Just tried disabling that, and I still get the same issue. It might be easier to just plug the drive directly into the NAS, but I was hoping to have it powered from a different circuit.
browerjs wrote:
Just tried disabling that, and I still get the same issue. It might be easier to just plug the drive directly into the NAS, but I was hoping to have it powered from a different circuit.
USB backup on the NV+ is also extremely slow.
You could try exporting with NFS instead of SMB. https://macvfx.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/nfs-set-up-with-os-x-10-9-mavericks/
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