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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...
OK, so here I am with the same problem on just one XP computer, but not the other XP one nor the two Win 7 ones, and on just one of my ReadyNAS's. So, It HAS to be XP (Pro, w/ service pack 3) that's doing it, I think. If I try to access my home directory using either the NAS name or the IP address and either my own or admin credentials, it won't work. No problem with access to public directories. I can access my home directory on my other NAS just fine. They have the same users and everyting, I exported users and groups from one to the other when I set up the second one. Disabled my firewall (which should have affected public and home directories if that was it), and no change.
I've tried multiple net use * /delete, removed ALL of my cached passwords from Key Manager, rebooted both the NAS and XP machine (multiple times), and still no go. I've gone so far as to delete all references to the share name in the registry, and still nothing. I've renamed the NAS and given it another IP address. Nothing seems to work.
If I do a NET USE (with password and user name) to map the share as a drive, all seems OK. Get "The command completed successfully." I can even change to that directory. But I can't see any files or diectories. I get an error that the network name is already in use. The mapped drive shows up wih status "OK" with a NET USE command.
If I just double-click on the share in "My Network Places"(without first having the drive maped), it prompts for a user name and password. I put them in, and after a LONG wait it tells me I don't have permission to access and the network name no longer exists. It seems to be searching the LOCAL hard drive for something during this long wait. Now, NET USE shows the path without a drive letter, but still with status "OK". Checking the box to save the password when I enter it creates an entry in the Key Manager, but makes no difference as far as access is concerned. If I use Explorer to go to top level on the NAS, I see the share there, but still can't access it.
It's an NVX Business edition, if it matters; but I don't think it does. Otherwise, it would be affecting all my computers. Just to be sure, I checked file permissions using SSH, and I'm the owner and have full RWX permissions.
My best guess is that XP is not properly storing and/or passing on my credentials when it trys to access the NAS. But why only on one and not the other NAS? Have Googled up a storm and not found anything that looks like a solution.
I've tried multiple net use * /delete, removed ALL of my cached passwords from Key Manager, rebooted both the NAS and XP machine (multiple times), and still no go. I've gone so far as to delete all references to the share name in the registry, and still nothing. I've renamed the NAS and given it another IP address. Nothing seems to work.
If I do a NET USE (with password and user name) to map the share as a drive, all seems OK. Get "The command completed successfully." I can even change to that directory. But I can't see any files or diectories. I get an error that the network name is already in use. The mapped drive shows up wih status "OK" with a NET USE command.
If I just double-click on the share in "My Network Places"(without first having the drive maped), it prompts for a user name and password. I put them in, and after a LONG wait it tells me I don't have permission to access and the network name no longer exists. It seems to be searching the LOCAL hard drive for something during this long wait. Now, NET USE shows the path without a drive letter, but still with status "OK". Checking the box to save the password when I enter it creates an entry in the Key Manager, but makes no difference as far as access is concerned. If I use Explorer to go to top level on the NAS, I see the share there, but still can't access it.
It's an NVX Business edition, if it matters; but I don't think it does. Otherwise, it would be affecting all my computers. Just to be sure, I checked file permissions using SSH, and I'm the owner and have full RWX permissions.
My best guess is that XP is not properly storing and/or passing on my credentials when it trys to access the NAS. But why only on one and not the other NAS? Have Googled up a storm and not found anything that looks like a solution.
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