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AlexWhittles
Guide
Jul 01, 2016
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Permission denied when accessing using Active Directory

I recently changed from local users to Active Directory. This finally started working after a 6.5.1 upgrade, the users are now synchronised and I can create shares and set permissions.   However, w...
Windows Domain and Active Directory
  • BrianL2's avatar
    BrianL2
    Jul 07, 2016

    Hi AlexWhittles,

     

    Do you have files saved on each private home folder of your AD users? If none, you can remove your NAS from your AD and re-integrate it again. Once done, re-apply your desired share permission/s for SMB access via file explorer. 

     

     

    Kind regards,

     

    BrianL
    NETGEAR Community Team

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BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 03, 2016

Hi AlexWhittles,

 

Either reset the permission of the said share/s via the admin page (Network Access) or through your server (using this procedure). Just ensure that shares have "Allow anonymous access" is unchecked.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

AlexWhittles's avatar
AlexWhittles
Guide
Jul 07, 2016

Hi Brian

 

Thanks for your help.

 

I've tried setting 'Allow Anonymous Access' on and off, and it doesn't make any difference to the problem.

I've tried removing permissions and adding them again using the web admin interface, I've tried using AD groups, AD users, and Everyone, I'm still unable to access the shares, it just keeps asking for login credentials and will not accept the details of any user account that I try.

 

I've also tried setting permissions using your second suggestion, through Windows Explorer, but this doesn't work either. I'm unable to even browse to the parent/root folder so I can't even see the shares, let alone interact/admin them. If I try and use Windows Explorer to navigate to the parent/root (\\ReadyNAS\) it just asks for credentials and will not accept any AD user accounts that I provide.

 

I've tried navigating directly to a share (\\ReadyNAS\Shared\) but exactly the same thing, it just keeps asking for credentials and will not accept any that I provide.

 

Please help!!!

Thanks

Alex

 

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