unRAID: 5.05 in safe mode.

 

Ever since moving to Windows 8 I have had odd issues with SMB security settings. As long as a share in unRAID is public everything is fine. As soon as I set a share to private I have access issues. Windows constantly pops up a network credentials box. When using Windows XP and 7, everything worked great. Is it something to do with how Windows 8 is setup using the Microsoft account login? Previously my username for unRAID and Windows was just my name in lowercase. Now in Windows is my ms account id which is an email, but it still appears in Windows as my name I used previously.

 

If I set that same share in unRAID to 'secure' I can access the share just fine. It seems private is the only setting I am having issues with.

 

On a side note, I have tried removing my user in unRAID and re-adding it. But now when I try to add a new user I get an error:

chpasswd: line 1: user '[email protected]' does not exist
chpasswd: error detected, changes ignored

Of course the user "[email protected]" does not exist, I am trying to create it. It seems trying to add a username that is an email (with the @ symbol) causes this error.

unRAID: 5.05 in safe mode.

 

Ever since moving to Windows 8 I have had odd issues with SMB security settings. As long as a share in unRAID is public everything is fine. As soon as I set a share to private I have access issues. Windows constantly pops up a network credentials box. When using Windows XP and 7, everything worked great. Is it something to do with how Windows 8 is setup using the Microsoft account login? Previously my username for unRAID and Windows was just my name in lowercase. Now in Windows is my ms account id which is an email, but it still appears in Windows as my name I used previously.

 

If I set that same share in unRAID to 'secure' I can access the share just fine. It seems private is the only setting I am having issues with.

 

On a side note, I have tried removing my user in unRAID and re-adding it. But now when I try to add a new user I get an error:

chpasswd: line 1: user '[email protected]' does not exist
chpasswd: error detected, changes ignored

Of course the user "[email protected]" does not exist, I am trying to create it. It seems trying to add a username that is an email (with the @ symbol) causes this error.

 

I had this problem, I can't remember the exact steps I took but I basically renamed my windows user ID... I posted what I did on this forum a while back so you may want to look at my post history

 

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I found your post and link to the instructions. That did me no good. My username was already the same as the unRAID user. I also have run the unRAID new permissions utility. I still get the network credentials dialog.

I found your post and link to the instructions. That did me no good. My username was already the same as the unRAID user. I also have run the unRAID new permissions utility. I still get the network credentials dialog.

You say your username is the same as the unRAID username - but this cannot be the case if your Windows username contains an @ as this is not a valid character in a username in unRAiD (being a limitation of the underlying Linux OS).  Also the unRAID username cannot user upper-case characters.

 

If you have set the unRaID username to be your name in lower case as you have implied then when logging on to the unRAID system from the Windows 8 system you need to use the option to select another account and specify the username as system\username where system is the name of the unRAID server and username is the one set up on unRaID

 

I found your post and link to the instructions. That did me no good. My username was already the same as the unRAID user. I also have run the unRAID new permissions utility. I still get the network credentials dialog.

You say your username is the same as the unRAID username - but this cannot be the case if your Windows username contains an @ as this is not a valid character in a username in unRAiD (being a limitation of the underlying Linux OS).  Also the unRAID username cannot user upper-case characters.

 

If you have set the unRaID username to be your name in lower case as you have implied then when logging on to the unRAID system from the Windows 8 system you need to use the option to select another account and specify the username as system\username where system is the name of the unRAID server and username is the one set up on unRaID

I tried that as well earlier and it also did not allow access. Now it does from at least one PC. The odd thing is it is very inconsistent. On one PC I can just type my username, even using a capital first letter. On another PC, I have to use tower\xxxx, where xxx is my username in all lowercase. On yet another PC, neither of those option work at all, yet I have the same user account. This is frustrating. I use the same MS login on all PCs, which is my email address. When I check my account name in netplwiz it is shown as my name in all lowercase. My user folder on the C drive is also shown as my name in all lowercase.

 

So unRAID must use all lowercase as the username. Does that mean it will only accept an all lowercase name from a remote PC, or that it just ignores uppercase characters?

Take a look at this post:

 

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25856.msg225331#msg225331

 

 

Well, not sure how helpful that post is. As explained above one PC can access the share even when I use a capital letter. It is the inconsistent behavior between all the PCs that is frustrating. It all worked great using unRaid 4 and Windows 7. I tend to believe it is a Windows issue, but I just can't find any difference in my accounts across the various PCs.

Well, not sure how helpful that post is. As explained above one PC can access the share even when I use a capital letter. It is the inconsistent behavior between all the PCs that is frustrating. It all worked great using unRaid 4 and Windows 7. I tend to believe it is a Windows issue, but I just can't find any difference in my accounts across the various PCs.

 

What I am not sure of as how the various variants of windows handles Caps/SmLtrs situation.  I know that internally it tends to totally ignore them.  That is a file named test.txt will be overwritten by a file named Test.txt in Windows 7.  I am not sure how each version of Windows passes out things like user names for network operations.  Does it strip them to all small letters?  Does it strip them to all capital letters? Or does it pass them out as they were written (mix of both if so entered)?  Does win 8 handle it the same way as win7 does?  (I have been using Windows since Win 3.0 and I certainly wouldn't take a bet that Windows will maintain any consistency between its various favors!)