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Vista Home Premium demands user name & password
Brand new ReadyNAS Duo v2 configured as out of the box. So default shares, Media and Backup, both access = all and everyone read/write. Windows 7 Professional 64 bit PC can access shares without use...
This is not an issue with READYNAS samba, you need to research various ways to connect with Windows (different versions act differently). SAMBA is simply enabled on the NAS with its USER security options there isnt much Tuning that can be done to it. HOWEVER the way windows connects can be tuned. Windows samba/cifs connections is kinda squirelly and needs to be attempted several ways. One way to check if its the nas or Windows, is try the lowest level of connection. Also research connecting Windows to Samba, so you can witness all the different squirelly behaviors of windows with it, and know how to work around it.
IN this example I will assume drive z is not taken and will be our mapped drive, im also assuming your nas has ip of 192.168.1.50
go to cmd
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob password
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:domain\bob password
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob@domain.com password
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:domain\bob
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob@domain.com
Also try the regural \\192.168.1.50 connection type for username and password a user that you have on the NAS (not the admin account, the admin account is not a user of the shares - however with domains it is, since admin is a domain account, in your case you USER and not DOMAIN security so DO NOT use admin user).
Also since you are using USER mode and public doesnt work for some squirelly reason try making a username for example like "bob" up top
When asked for credentials try this:
USERNAME: bob
USERNAME: domain\bob
USERNAME: bob@domain.com
PASSWORD: password
IN this example I will assume drive z is not taken and will be our mapped drive, im also assuming your nas has ip of 192.168.1.50
go to cmd
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob password
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:domain\bob password
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob@domain.com password
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:domain\bob
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob@domain.com
Also try the regural \\192.168.1.50 connection type for username and password a user that you have on the NAS (not the admin account, the admin account is not a user of the shares - however with domains it is, since admin is a domain account, in your case you USER and not DOMAIN security so DO NOT use admin user).
Also since you are using USER mode and public doesnt work for some squirelly reason try making a username for example like "bob" up top
When asked for credentials try this:
USERNAME: bob
USERNAME: domain\bob
USERNAME: bob@domain.com
PASSWORD: password
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