Connecting To NAS Box As "User"?

[(PeteCresswell)]

I'm trying to lock down my NAS box at least a little bit. Right
now it's Read/Write for anybody and everybody.

NetGear ReadyNAS Ultra-6.

The thing runs Linux and has it's own little world of "Groups"
and "Users" and I'm assuming that it knows nothing about XP's
world of UserID/Password schemes.

So...

The question is, how do I tell XP to use a "User" and "Password"
known to the box when going at it's shares?

I can't even make My Computer | Map Network Drive | Connect
using a different user name work. It keeps prompting for a
Password even though the PW supplied is correct.

But even if I could make it work, I would still want to be able
to navigate the NAS box via Network Places.

??

 

[Don Phillipson]

The question is, how do I tell XP to use a "User" and "Password"
known to the box when going at it's shares?

Something is fundamentally wrong about this question.

1. WinXP requires users to log on. (WinXP can be configured
to log in at boot a single user with no password, but that is still
within the parameters of the requirement to log on.)
2. By default, no folders are shared. When configuring a folder
tolder to be shared, this can be shared with only one named
user or several or all users.

Repost if you need further guidance.

 

[Paul]

I'm trying to lock down my NAS box at least a little bit. Right
now it's Read/Write for anybody and everybody.

NetGear ReadyNAS Ultra-6.

The thing runs Linux and has it's own little world of "Groups"
and "Users" and I'm assuming that it knows nothing about XP's
world of UserID/Password schemes.

So...

The question is, how do I tell XP to use a "User" and "Password"
known to the box when going at it's shares?

I can't even make My Computer | Map Network Drive | Connect
using a different user name work. It keeps prompting for a
Password even though the PW supplied is correct.

But even if I could make it work, I would still want to be able
to navigate the NAS box via Network Places.

??

You could try page 59 here.

http://documentation.netgear.com/ultra/enu/202-10654-01/usermanual_1.pdf

You can find info on Samba here.

http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/AccessControls.html

Somewhere between the two, lies a solution

The page here, keeps referring to a Domain Controller, as if a
home user would have one of those. If you watch your computer
and its network packets, Windows searches for a domain at startup,
and there is an election process to decide where the domain controller
is. Presumably something happens by default if there is no domain
controller, but I don't know what that is. (I'm not an IT guy.)

http://www.readynas.com/?p=1987

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_controller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)

"As of version 3, Samba provides file and print services for various
Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain,
either as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or as a domain member. It
can also be part of an Active Directory domain."

And yet, I can't see any mention of PDC, in the Netgear documentation.

Paul

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Paul:

You could try page 59 here.

http://documentation.netgear.com/ultra/enu/202-10654-01/usermanual_1.pdf

That's where I am now..... but the only Windows ref is to "Domain
Controller"... and all I have is a local WorkGroup - so anything
to do with Domains or Active Directory Services would seem tb
moot.

As noted in the OP, I can get to a Windows dialog where it
solicits a user/password, but the dialog does not buy one or the
other.

I even went so far as to set up on the NAS box a user "x" with
password "x" to put to rest any question about my keyboarding
accuracy....

This is making me think I'm doing something basically
bone-headed... something like the old wrong-direction slash in
the ID specification (e.g. "NAS\x" instead of "NAS/x"... been
there done that a few times in a Domain situation... although my
XP build at home is nice enough to spot that error and prompt
accordingly...

Two immediate problems, then:

- Getting past XPs the UserName/Password prompt in the Map
Network Drive dialog

- Telling Windows to use the proper NAS box UserName/Password
when I navigate the box via My Network Places.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Something is fundamentally wrong about this question.

Something is fundamentally wrong about this answer.

1. WinXP requires users to log on. (WinXP can be configured
to log in at boot a single user with no password, but that is still
within the parameters of the requirement to log on.)
2. By default, no folders are shared. When configuring a folder
tolder to be shared, this can be shared with only one named
user or several or all users.

1. The OP said
2. and then
"the box" in this case, obviously referring to the NAS box.

Repost if you need further guidance.

Likewise.

--
Zaphod

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