Brand new ReadyNAS Duo v2 configured as out of the box. So default shares, Media and Backup, both access = all and everyone read/write. Windows 7 Professional 64 bit PC can access shares without username and password but Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit prompts for user name and password - access granted when credentials entered. ReadyNAS support say that as W7 can access without credentials it must be a setting in Windows Vista. Seems logical - but can anyone suggest where to look, please? This is a home network and I want to avoid entering credentials if I can thanks ColinH
Re: Vista Home Premium demands user name & password
This is not an issue with READYNAS samba, you need to research various ways to connect with Windows (different versions act differently). SAMBA is simply enabled on the NAS with its USER security options there isnt much Tuning that can be done to it. HOWEVER the way windows connects can be tuned. Windows samba/cifs connections is kinda squirelly and needs to be attempted several ways. One way to check if its the nas or Windows, is try the lowest level of connection. Also research connecting Windows to Samba, so you can witness all the different squirelly behaviors of windows with it, and know how to work around it.
IN this example I will assume drive z is not taken and will be our mapped drive, im also assuming your nas has ip of 192.168.1.50 go to cmd
net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob password net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:domain\bob password net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob@domain.com password net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:domain\bob net use z: \\192.168.1.50\backup /PERSISTENT:yes /USER:bob@domain.com
Also try the regural \\192.168.1.50 connection type for username and password a user that you have on the NAS (not the admin account, the admin account is not a user of the shares - however with domains it is, since admin is a domain account, in your case you USER and not DOMAIN security so DO NOT use admin user).
Also since you are using USER mode and public doesnt work for some squirelly reason try making a username for example like "bob" up top
When asked for credentials try this:
USERNAME: bob USERNAME: domain\bob USERNAME: bob@domain.com PASSWORD: password
Re: Vista Home Premium demands user name & password
Kossboss, thanks for taking the time to reply. I've already been searching the Vista forums as you suggested. As you say, different versions of Windows behave differently. It seems to be a feature of Vista that it prompts for credentials to access a public share when W7 doesn't. Some versions of Vista allow network passwords to be stored (Control Panel, User Accounts, Manage Your Network Passwords) as does W7 (Control Panel, User Accounts, Manage Your Credentials). But In Vista Home Premium the option to create a Windows log in when you try to add a password is greyed out. Some Vista forum contributors recommend a registry edit to enable the option but I think registry editing is best avoided by an amateur like me! Unfortunately the persistent parameter for the net use command you suggest does not save the connection and restore it at next logon as it is supposed to. You could, however, execute the net use command at logon by putting it (without the persistent parameter) in a batch file in the startup folder. But if I have to use an executable file in the startup folder to map a drive at logon I prefer this VB script that I found (I renamed my NAS "ReadyNAS" and created a user):
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "N:", "\\ReadyNAS\share", , "username", "password"
It's working well so far. Thanks to Win2Kuser in the Tech Support Guy forum for that: http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/602929-vista-home-premium-network-passwords.html
