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I've got a similar problem - I hope someone can help.

I recently bought my DNS-323 to backup my Vista (Home Premium) SP1 computer.   It has two 500Gb drives configured as RAID1.

Here is what I did:
1. Upgraded DNS firmware from 1.04 to 1.05
2. Created a user called 'backup' in a group called 'archive' using the Web Interface to the DNS
3. Created a folder called 'backup' on 'Volume_1' of my DNS using 'New Folder' in Vista.
4. As Administrator on my machine, setup a backup to the 'Volume_1\backup' folder.  It asked me for a username and password, so I used the 'backup' username and password.
5. Started the backup.... it chugged away for a few hours.... backup successful.

Everything is backed up and I can restore files (the random selection I've tried).

However, I CANNOT access the folder that was created in 'Volume_1\backup' via the Windows Explorer.  It gives me 'Access is Denied'.  I've read around this problem a lot on various forums but cannot come up with a solution to get access to the folder just using the Vista interface.  Obviously I need to have access to the backup folder for when I need to clear out old backups and start afresh.

According to the properties of the folder that the backup created (named after my machine's name);
1. Everyone and 503 (Unix Group \503) have no access at all
2. archive (DLINK-A95E46\backup) has complete access

According to some forums; there should be a way to have a 'network' login for the administrator through the User Accounts in the Vista control panel but I don't know exactly how to set this up.

I'm looking for a simple Vista based solution to this problem.  From what I've read I could use a Linux machine or telnet into the DNS-323 but I don't fancy going down these routes if there is a much simpler solution.

I have had the same problem. I my case I ended up with the NAS folder being owned by no one as I left the default box settings with open access (it's on a very private bit of network). That's all good, except I can't get the fugging stuff precisely as you say. I can test that the backups work, and I can even look at them through the restore UI. But I can't purge the things down, and there's bog all data on the net about how you do that.

It's kind of funny that they made a backup system which is pig-easy to back up and restore from, but for which you apparently need an infinite amount of store. I've only about 400G of images I'm backing up here, but daily backups mean I use 1T storage in a couple of weeks. To date I only ran out of space once, and I just reformatted the disk in frustration (leaving me with no backups...).

I've restructured some other stuff now so I have a second backup device. I think I will therefore try your approach, with the old LAN Manager command line thing (which I first used in about 1985!) to get access back. At the moment, I can't access my archives that way as although I can connect a drive with the password (which is a great step forward from what "map drive" does in Explorer), I can see the directories but not the files I know are in them. Well I can see the tmp files (can I safely delete them?), but not the contents of my backup directory.

This Samba windows/Unix interface stuff is just garbage.

I'm assuming you can see your backup files (which are supposed to be ZIPs) in your case. I'm not sure even then how Vista constructs the catalog - if you delete ZIPs from under the feet of it, doe the catalog stil work? It takes a while to read the catalog, so maybe it re-builds it on the fly, in which case this is ok.

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Oh, hang on.. I could see nothing in the way of the actual archives in the command line, and I could not take ownership of the stuff there. But I went back to explorer to look at my drive, and there it is, and now I can tunnel down to it through explorer. Oh well, I'll just make that share permanent, or create a batch file to make it, and then I'm all done.

thanks

Last edited by philw (2008-10-18 19:58:07)