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I have both a dns-323 and dns-321. I'm using the dns-321 now because it supports the new 1.5T drives (from seagate) with the latest firmware. I've been having permissions issues since I started using this box so I've kept it open access for all. But I don't like the idea that anyone who is on our wireless can go in and browse my personal and financially sensitive files. Anyways, although the dns-323 isn't up and running yet, it seems to have the same issues from what I've read.
Like I said, I've been having permissions issues with my DNS-321 box since I got it. First thing I did when I got the box was to upgrade to 1.01 (need it to support 1.5T drives - works great). I have two seagate 1.5T drives in a raid 1 configuration. Once I assign permission to my "volume_1" volume, I can no longer access that volume on my xp laptop so I have to do a factory reset and keep it open to "ALL".
I happen to be playing with the dns-321 on my vista box playing with permissions again. To my surprise, I can see the dns-321's "volume_1" by typing in the credentials for any user I created on the dns-321. Remember, I could not get this to work on xp. Everything works fine in vista! I used a program that required access to the shared drives and it asked me for credentials. I entered invalid ones and as expected, I couldn't get in. I entered a valid user, but wrong password, and as expected, I couldn't get in. I then entered correct credentials for all two of my defined users (that i defined in the dns-321 web interface) and I was able to get in.
I tried the same procedure on the xp laptop and I just can not get it to work.
My thoughts are: my vista machine is under WORKGROUP and my xp laptop is under my work domain. However, when I provide credentials, It shouldn't matter because I explicitly am using the same ones by specifying the domain. Then I realize no matter what I typed on the vista machine for the domain, I can always get in as long as the username and password is correct... so, this works on the vista machine:
user: gary
pass: mypassword
user: inspiron530/gary
pass: mypassword
and surprisingly
user: blah/gary
pass: mypassword
blah is not valid.
None of these work on my xp laptop. The behavior I want is that of the vista machine.
Can anyone shed some insight on this? The permissions work wonderfully on the vista
machine and not on the XP machine. XP has service pack 2 installed. Perhaps I need to
update something? Vista is the home edition (32 bit) with _I think_ service pack 1.
Gary
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How are you connecting? Are you waiting for a prompt for for your credentials, or are you mapping a drive and specifying Connect with another user name? If it is the former, there are bugs with Windows that give you this problem. The solution is to right click on my computer, click map a drive, then use the connect with a different user name function. Supply your credentials there.
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Thanks for your reply.
I'm waiting for a prompt for my credentials. I am NOT mapping the shared as a drive. Hmmm... I will try this tonight and see if I can do the latter. If this works I'd be a happy camper!
My password on that xp machine is > 10 characters if that matters.
Again thanks.
Gary
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bq041: Thank you! It looks like it works! I had to map the drive (like you said) and change the map status to "yes" and it worked! I'm used to not mapping the drives but instead access them using the domain specifier.
Thanks again!
Last edited by garyhgaryh (2008-12-19 11:56:18)
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