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shivy
Mar 05, 2013Aspirant
Windows Security credentials to connect to ReadyNAS Duo
Used to access the NAS by the Hostname I gave to it. It used to ask me sometimes (if I didn't tick the 'remember my credentials') to put login details, name and password - BUT it's not a network passw...
StephenB
Aug 08, 2013Guru - Experienced User
[quote="engine411"]We typically need to enter a Windows Credential with the name of the PC as the user, and no password. But I don't have users and groups set up. So for a computer named SHIPPING, on that computer, I enter a credential with user of SHIPPING and no password. Works easily.[/quoteThis only works if the share you are accessing is set so everyone can read/write it. If that is the case, any user name that doesn't exist on the NAS will work (that is, you could use "doesntexist" as the user name on all the PCs and get the same result).
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