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ReadyNAS 102 - Sharing Folders
Configured two new shares with access limited to two users for one of the new shares and limited to one user for the other. I tested from the two users, and one has access to both and the other has a...
Craig_X wrote:
and he sees one called "admin" and one called "data". Not much within "admin", but "data" has all the shares under it. To me this seems that this user is being recongnized as the admin account, but it makes no sense.
Yes, he is definitely using the NAS admin account credentials. Try opening the windows credential manager, and see if those credentials are stored there for the NAS.
Craig_X wrote:
and he sees one called "admin" and one called "data". Not much within "admin", but "data" has all the shares under it. To me this seems that this user is being recongnized as the admin account, but it makes no sense.
Yes, he is definitely using the NAS admin account credentials. Try opening the windows credential manager, and see if those credentials are stored there for the NAS.
BINGO!
Yes, he had stored the admin credentials....probably somehow from the many times I've managed the NAS from that computer. Strange that it stored the credentials for accessing via SMB when management is done via http, but not the wierdest thing I've ever seen. I cleared the credientials, logged out of windows, logged back in, and now it works just as it should.
Thank you for excellent advice.
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