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No longer able to connect netdrive
Hi, on last weekend I recognized, that my PC (Win7Pro) is no longer able to connect my netdrives to the ReadyNAS Duo shares via CIFS. It was working for years before and I didn't change anything. I ...
Hi,
I reset the share permissions, but no success.
I even have no option to set the security mode.
Regards,
Christian
FWIW, here are my settings (which work with Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 10). Maybe start with them and see if they work. If so, then tune them to what you'd like. If the files are sensitive, you can create a test share with these settings.
CIFS page:
default access: Read/write
Allow Guest Access: checked
Automatically set permissions on new files and folders: checked
Do not allow ACL changes to be more restricted than this: checked
When new files are created:
group rights: Read/write
everyone rights: Read/write
When new folders are created:
group rights: Read/write
everyone rights: Read/write
Enable oplocks for this share: checked
(everything else is clear)
Advance Options:
Share Folder owner: nobody
Share Folder group: nogroup
Share folder owner rights: Read/write
Share folder group rights: Read/write
Share folder everyone rights: Read/write
grane rename and delete privileges to non-owner of files: checked
If you change anything on advanced options, then check "set owner and permission for existing files..." and then apply.
Workgroup setting: NAS workgroup matches Windows
Network type (windows): private (or home).
Windows Credential Manager: NAS has two entries (one for the IP addreses, and one for the name). Both have \\nasname\admin for the user, and the NAS admin password for the password.
Ok, I did everything - no change.
Could it be a problem with windows? Since the NAS was working for years with the same settings without problems and now all shares can not be connected from my PC. So Windows makes automatically updates, this is the only possible change I see...
Regards, Christian
My windows systems (1 vista, 3 win 7, 1 win 10) all access my ReadyNAS with those settings. They are up to date (all important updates applied).
You have tried both \\nasname and \\ipaddress in windows explorer?
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