Windows 7 Folder Access

Hi Evan

You know, Munitions problem with folder/share access seems to be exactly the same thing I am experiencing, i.e. unticking "Allow anonymous access" and "Everyone" effectively locks me out of the Share, even though I have given myself full Read/Write access. Plus, I do have full administration rights to my WinXP O/S.

I have taken my problem to Netgear Support and got nowhere, they gave up, and so I have to use my NAS box as a one man storage unit.

However, the solution you have given to Munitions may just solve my problem;

evan wrote:
Hi Munitions, Please try below setting on your Windows 7, 1. from the run command or from a cmd window run secpol.msc 2. go to “Local Policies” -> “Security Options” -> “Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level” 3. change to “LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated” 4. Press the OK button

I will give it a try as soon as I am able to, thanks in advance.


UK Bob

PS. Rather than running secpol, I use "Control Panel", next I double click "Administrative Tools" and then pick up your instructions from No. 2.

Hi all and thanks again for the replies.

Well tonight I discovered something interesting. I've not changed any settings from default in W7 or altered the registry because I can't!

Running my laptop and PC side by side - both running W7 Home Premium. Started both up from cold.

With my laptop, I navigated to Windows Explorer, then Network, then my NAS. At this point, the Windows Security popup appears. I actually entered the credentials for the user I manually created which I granted sole access to one of the shares (along with the default "admin"). It accepted the username and password and let me into my share and access the files inside - the one I disabled anonymous access to - hooray!

On the PC I did the same - except I used the "Admin" account (which I use to log in to the NAS firmware menu) at the point where I first click on the NAS from my Network. (this is what I have been doing normally) Two different things then happen:

1. I see all the shares in Windows Explorer plus two which don't seem to exist on the actual NAS Firmware menu - "data" and "home". Neither of which I can get into. I didn't see these two shares in the previous step.
2. If I click on the share which I got access to using my manually created user as described above, it doesn't work. From here, it doesn't accept the manually created user or admin account

So it seems that when accessing the NAS for the first time since a clean boot, I need to use the manually created user account which is sort of OK but just really odd that the built in admin account doesn't work.

I now wonder whether I have misunderstood something - does the NAS firmware "Admin" account equal/correspond to the "admin" account you see under the share "network access" settings ? If they are different, how would I know what the network access "admin" account password is?

Also, does anyone know what the "data" and "home" shares are?

Cheers,
Munitions

There is only one admin account in the NAS. When you logged as admin in Windows Explorer, you were it. Though you should have been able to get into the home folder and the data volume. What firmware are you running on the NAS?

I'm running 6.1.2

ok. I am running 6.1.2 also, and when I use my admin logon I can browse data and home from Windows explorer.

You can't access them from the web interface though.

Hi Guys. I'm having terrible trouble getting user access to a folder the same as Munition has.
The only way I can see inside a share from any of the computers (not networked, just sharing a router) is if i set the folder to Allow Anonymous Access. Both machines are Windows 7 Enterprise (64 Bit). I have tried the "Send LM & NTLM Response" settings but that's made no difference. I think have tried every single permutation of ticked and un-ticked boxs throughout the shares settings for days now, and am frankly cheesed of with it all. I either get a log on box which won't accept any credentials I try, or i get "Access Denied". I once had a box that said OPEN FOLDER, basically this was access denied too. However it went further to say "You can't have the same user using different log in credentials". I wasn't logged in anywhere else so this confused me even more?

So has there been any advancements? Is the only way to access the stupid RN102 (6.1.2) by allowing anonymous access?
Many thanks for any reply.

Also, can somebody clarify "HOSTS". To me HOST means the machine sharing the folder, not the machine accessing it?
And what is the Root password?

robbie73 wrote:

Hi Guys. I'm having terrible trouble getting user access to a folder the same as Munition has. The only way I can see inside a share from any of the computers (not networked, just sharing a router) is if i set the folder to Allow Anonymous Access. Both machines are Windows 7 Enterprise (64 Bit). I have tried the "Send LM & NTLM Response" settings but that's made no difference. I think have tried every single permutation of ticked and un-ticked boxs throughout the shares settings for days now, and am frankly cheesed of with it all. I either get a log on box which won't accept any credentials I try, or i get "Access Denied". I once had a box that said OPEN FOLDER, basically this was access denied too. However it went further to say "You can't have the same user using different log in credentials". I wasn't logged in anywhere else so this confused me even more? So has there been any advancements? Is the only way to access the stupid RN102 (6.1.2) by allowing anonymous access? Many thanks for any reply. Also, can somebody clarify "HOSTS". To me HOST means the machine sharing the folder, not the machine accessing it? And what is the Root password?

Hi robbie73,
Please contact support, maybe supporter need to remote access your device to check the problem.

Hi Evan

As a follow up to my previous post, of 21st September, and after making your modifications I was able to delete a folder that previously refused to be deleted.

Some of the story is here:

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=72838#p407820

Although I have not yet tested putting restrictions on shares/folders yet I can now say I have full deletion facilities back.

Thanks


UK Bob

Dear Forum Members

Following up on my deletion of my undeletable share/folder yesterday (see my posting above), well it's back and as before cannot be deleted again.

OK, I've given up on this share and from now on I'm just going to leave it alone because it's empty, crippled, refuses to be deleted and as far as I can tell takes up no space.


UK Bob