Help with going back to Windows please

[JustCann]

Hey guys, I am getting rid of my Mac and moving to a Surface Pro tablet with Win 8.1 (until 10 comes out).

My Surface detects my ReadyNas Ultra 2 and I am able to see the items on the shares, but I can't authenticate to it.  This is probably a simple fix, but i must have been on a Mac for too long.  Can someone help me authenticate to the share again?  I have smb set to allow my user name, but i cant figure out how to authenticate to it with the automatically detected share in explorer.

Also, now that I will not be needing the Time Machine backups that were stored for the Mac, how do i securely delete those backups and recover the disk space?

[BaJohn]

Hey guys, I am getting rid of my Mac and moving to a Surface Pro tablet with Win 8.1 (until 10 comes out).

Tomorrow:)

[JustCann]

I don't hold out much hope that I will be included in the first wave of updates...they have stated it will be a staged rollout.

[BaJohn]

Oh so we can only update "on command from on high".

I thought the downloads had already happened on my machine.

Thus I assumed that on the day (i.e. tomorrow) we could all (if we wanted) update offline, so to speak.

The staging I believe was for the downloads, NOT the updating.

Oh well either way ... only a few hours and we will find out.

Re ... your problem

I setup a user on the ReadyNAS and used that to authenticate the access from Windows (it prompted for the info the first time accessed)

For private Time machine, just click on the name and choose <delete>. Not quite sure if you are using shared time machine.

[mdgm-ntgr]

Which firmware is running on your Ultra 2?

The Ultra 2 uses shared Time Machine.

[JustCann]

4.2.27 is the currently installed firmware.

[mdgm-ntgr]

If you login to \\ip.address.of.nas as the "admin" user and then browse to \\ip.address.of.nas\c\.timemachine you should be able to delete the sparsebundle in there.