My two unRAID machines (4.7) did work since years happily with all my Windows releases. I managed to add the same user to the unRAID machines that was used on the WIndows machines as well.

 

Last week I did install Windows 8 on all machines in my home and now I can't connect any longer. I never looked at this Windows domain/workgroup thing so I don't have any idea what to do.

 

Two questions:

 

* I have no clue what's the name of the Windows account that was created during installation. In the Windows explorer the user is called "Harald" in the login screen the user is called "Harald Wilhelm" and on the mapped Microsoft Live account the account is named as my email address "ha****[email protected]". How can I find out my correct user name?

 

* After many years I tried to add a new user to the unRAID machines - I can't. I tried with array stopped or running. Whenever I add a new user nothing happens. syslog shows these lines:

 

Jan 25 11:58:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (95): useradd -d / -g Harald -s /bin/false -u 1001 Harald
Jan 25 11:58:27 Tower emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (95): exit status: 3
Jan 25 11:58:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (96): chpasswd <<< Harald:"*****"
Jan 25 11:58:27 Tower emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (96): exit status: 1
Jan 25 11:58:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (97): smbpasswd -L -s -a Harald <<< "*****"$'\n'"*****"
Jan 25 11:58:27 Tower emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (97): exit status: 1
Jan 25 11:58:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (98): cp /etc/passwd /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd /boot/config
Jan 25 11:59:11 Tower sshd[6530]: error: Could not get shadow information for root

 

Any help is highly appreciated.

 

 

EDIT: I found the button to use a different user to connect to these network shares (two unRAID servers). This way worked. Then mounting the ISOs with VirtualCloneDrive crashed Windows 8 - this could be solved as well with DaemonTools. Everythings working again. I love my unRAIDs running on these pretty old unRAID releases!

 

On a similar note, I have tried to install Windows 8 on my main PC and HTPC, and have experienced major problems with lack of access to folders within shares

 

I have shares created for TV, Movies, Music etc and mapped network drives to the shares. In Windows 7 generally I have had no problems. The HTPC sometimes have problems but I created a windows credenial with Server name:- Tower, User name:- Computer name/root and Password:- nobody. This worked OK

 

On installing Windows 8 I can map network drives to shares OK, however some folders within each networked drive are not accessible. I have tried installing the Take Possession" registry hack, but this does not allow me to take access rights. Generally the inaccessible folders show zero file size.

 

I am not sure if this is a Unraid problem or Windows 8 problem, however from using Google it seems that some Windows 8 users are having the same problem too

 

If I create the same windows credential as above, Windows network will see TOWER, but I am refused access to shares and cannot therefore map drive letters.

 

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I thought that it my be connected to the OP problem.

Run "New Permissions"

I am running 5cr1 at the moment, and if I need to run the new permissions script, I might as well undate to 5rc10 at the same time.

 

I am just curious why all folders give the correct access rights under W7 but not under W8?

 

I tried loading W8 on a spare hard disk today and aome folders under mapped drives linked to UnRaid shares will not allow access and report zero file size. However when I swap to a hard disk using W7, the same files have full access?