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cdsatpb
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Aug 05, 2016
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WINDOWS CANNOT ACCESS \\READYNAS

A couple of weeks ago all the computers on my home network suddenly became unable to access my ReadNAS 104.  Windows Explorer shows the ReadyNAS under "Network", but double clicking on the ReadyNAS i...
  • StephenB's avatar
    Aug 05, 2016

    Usually the problem is related to windows credentials, not permissions.

     

    Changing the hostname would have bypassed any credentials stored in the credentials manager for READYNAS, and you would have restarted with newname.

     

    I believe something in the readycloud migration triggered this - at least most others who ran into similar issues were ReadyCloud users.

     

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