Mapping to home folders

[ipb_uk]

Hello, I'm trying to map a drive to my home folder on my pro (6.9.3). I can do it to the "shares" i.e. Media, Back-up. but for any of the "Home Folders", it not working. In the "Map Network Drive" box, I got to "Browse" and navigate to the NAS, but the home folders are not there. If I type it in manually, \\Pro\data or \\Pro\%admin% or \\Pro\fsshare\Dual\home\admin or using it's ip address, I can get to a login, but using the admin credentials it just returns to the login. All permutations I've tried gets me to a login, but it never accepts it. There is stuff in the folders as I can see it via the web admin pages. I've tried it from two different machines with the same result. What the heck am I doing wrong?

[StephenB]

You can access your own home folder using your NAS account credentials.  If you enter them into the Windows credential manager for the PC, then you can access it automatically, and also map it to a drive letter.  The path in file explorer is the same as the path for any share (\\nas-name\username ).

If you want to map home itself to a drive letter (so you can see the home folders for all users), then you need to use the NAS admin account for the credentials.

[ipb_uk]

Hello Stephen, Apart from "Windows credential manager" which doesn't seem to be on my machine. That's what I'm doing. Using the NAS admin credentials. So frustrating. Ian

[StephenB]

What version of windows are you running?  The credential manager goes all the way back to Vista I think.

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@ipb_uk wrote:
Using the NAS admin credentials. 

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Try running CMD (windows command prompt), and enter

net use * /delete

net use t: \\nas-ip-address\data\home /user:admin nas-admin-password

Use the actual IP address and admin password of course.  Be careful on spaces and the slash direction.  This assumes that your data volume is the default ("data") and that you haven't using the default admin password of password.

You can use \\nas-ip-address\data\home\username  if you only want to map a specific home folder (or \\nas-ip-address\data if you want to map the full data volume)

[ipb_uk]

Hello Stephen. But not as far back as XP!! Anyway I got "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password" Funny that using those very same credentials I can login via frountview and via SSH (shell in a box). Thanks Ian.

[ipb_uk]

Forgot one line in the error I got....... System error 1326 has occurred. Sorry about missing that.

[schumaku]

Ensure your Windows system and the NAS are set to the exact same date, time zone, DST, and time. Configure both to sync of the Internet using NTP.

[ipb_uk]

Solved it by adding a second user with admin privileges and it all works as it should with this new user.

Thanks

[StephenB]

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@ipb_uk wrote:
Funny that using those very same credentials I can login via frountview and via SSH (shell in a box).

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As I mentioned, it won't work if the admin password is still set to the default password.  

If you aren't doing that, then perhaps try changing the admin password, rebooting the NAS, and then changing it back.

Note you shouldn't normally log into ssh using admin, instead you should use root.

[ipb_uk]

Thanks StephenB. Just for clarity, the password isn't the default. I used the admin credentials to see if they worked, other wise no point in trying. I'll try changing the password as suggested, so to see if that was the problem.

[ipb_uk]

Oh dear, still only works via the cmd line route. After changing the password and rebooting and changing for a second time and rebooting. Tried the cmd route after the normal route failed.

[StephenB]

If the CMD line works, then that says you need to go into the Windows Credential Manager.  Type "credential" into the windows search bar, and you should find it.

Delete any credentials that are in there for the NAS, and enter fresh ones.  Note that Windows treats the hostname and the IP address as different machines, so you can use different credentials with the hostname than you use with the IP address.