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PeteCress
Nov 24, 2012Apprentice
Windows XP Cannot See "Home" Share?
It was seeing it for awhile, then I re-booted the XP box and cannot see the Home share. Ditto a Windows 7 laptop. OTOH, the "Home" share is visible on my Android smart phone. Something with W...
PeteCress
Nov 25, 2012Apprentice
StephenB wrote: Normally the only way you would see home would be if you connected to the NAS as admin (using the NAS admin password), and then browsed to the C volume.
If you are logged in as a NAS user, then you would see that user's private share (which is saved under home) - but not home itself.
if you are getting guest access you wouldn't see home, and you wouldn't see a private share either.
I've been connecting as "admin" since day 1..... I think..... -) What I'm getting at is that when I click on the NAS icon under Network Places, there is no ID or PW prompt and I'm assuming it remembers me from some long-gone day.
When I try to map a share to \\NAS\Home\PeteCress (I do have an ID on the box with that name) it keeps prompting me for Username and Password. Ditto \\NAS\PeteCress. OTOH, with \\NAS\Home, Windows throws "The network path \\NAS\Home could not be found.
I've tried both ID's NAS\Admin and NAS\PeteCress with the corresponding PWs... but it just keeps throwing the prompt again with User Name still populated, but Password cleared.
But I keep coming back to the fact that I'm connecting on my Android device with no problem (Using the "admin" ID/Pw).
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