I'm sorry if this seems a simple question, but I have a duo v2 as a back up. Since up grading to windows 10 the backups are failing. I am confused about "shares" and "backups". I only want to use it to back up. Please explain it to me!
The backup program (windows backup in this case) is writing to a network share on the NAS. This network share is a folder on the NAS that is set up to be accessible to PCs and other devices (tablets, etc) on your local network.
Can you find the name of this target folder? It should have the form \\nasname\sharename.
One thing to try is to enter the windows credential manager, and create windows credentials for both the NAS hostname and the NAS IP address. The username and password should be for an account on the NAS. "admin" should work (though it depends in part on the target folder).
Before I upgraded to win 10, I was using the shares and backup via RAIDiator vx86-4.2.28 (probably the way its meant to work), since win 10 upgrade it stopped working, so I now want to use the built in windows back up but dont know how to configure my network so this will happen.
I dont know much about networking so please be patient!
If you are starting over, you need to do the following steps (in order)
(a) create a share on the NAS to hold the backups
(b) set up the PC to access that share - which includes adding the credential I talked about above
(c) set up Windows Backup so that share is the target (destination) folder.
Once you get through (a) and (b) you can use this guide for (c) - omitting "Create the destination share on the ReadyNAS" - that part only applies to OS 6 readynas, which is not what you have.
In file explorer, I typed \\nasname and I can see the share in dashboard (having entered user and password).
Great. Confirm that you drag/drop a file into the share with no errors. Once you've done that steps (a) and (b) are done.
What's left is to set up Windows Backup (and the kb article I linked shows you how to do that - ignore the first step in the kb article as you have already done it for your NAS model).
Tried drag & drop into a share via windows explorer but it says "access is denied"
That obviously needs to be fixed before we go further.
Open Windows Credential Manager (type "credential manager" in the windows search bar). Delete any credentials that are stored for your NAS. Add a new windows credential for NASNAME, using the user name and password from a local account on the ReadyNAS. You can use "admin" for this.
Then restart the windows system, and try this test again.
If I knew how to do it, I would start from scratch a factory reset my NAS!
It's easy to do that, but I think your problem is on the PC side.
Try opening CMD and enter:
net use * /delete
net use t: "\\nasname\sharename" /user:admin nasadminpassword
where sharename is the name of your backup share, and nasadminpassword is the NAS admin password. Be careful on the typing - esp. the slash directions.
The first command deletes any open sessions - if it asks for confirmation, then let it proceed. The second attempts to mount the backup share as drive letter t.
I have tried entering CMD in the serch bar, it opened a text window, where I typed the text as you wrote it. It just said "there are no entries in the list"
