Hi All,

 

      My setup is about a year to a year and a half old and all worked fine up to a week ago.  I am usually gone for a week to a fortnight at a time so the box gets regularly turned off. Off for a 10 days and back on for  3-4 days. All worked fine until last week and now both win 7 machines are asking for a password. I have had a look through the forums and tried various things:

 

Up until this problem I was running an older beta version of unRaid. I upgraded to:

 

Current Version:  unRAID Server Pro version: 5.0.5

 

Ran the permissions script - twice

 

Tried adding another user through the webgui. Previously only ever used root/ no password

 

I can access telnet, webgui and can see the tower in network places.

 

Smb security settings:

 

Export - Yes

Security - Public

 

Tower Specs

 

Mobo: P8Z68-V LX S1155 Intel Z68 DDR3 ATX

Cpu:  Intel Pentium Dual Core G620 2.6GHz LGA1155 3MB

Ram:  2 x Kingston HyperX Blu 2GB 1600MHz DDR3

 

As a side note I believe there might be a problem with my flash drive - previously tried adding unMenu - kept getting "read only file system"??

 

not sure if that matters here?/

 

 

Syslog attached,

 

Thanks in advance

syslog.txt

Your flash drive is corrupt. Put it in your PC and run checkdisk on it. This problem will prevent any settings from "sticking" since the flash drive is not writable.

 

Anyone has read/write access to a public share, so it shouldn't matter what Windows user is used, but, unRAID no longer allows root access to user shares on the network. Clear the credentials in Credential Manager in Control Panel and/or do

net use * /delete

from a command prompt.

 

Hi again,

 

          Thanks trurl for the very fast response, greatly appreciated. You were correct about the corrupt flash drive - ran checkdisk and found and repaired errors. unMenu now installed. I had previously cleared the credentials to no effect.  Reran in the command prompt on both computers and access is restored. I will give it 24 hours as previously access was intermittent and if no more problems I will mark the thread solved. Again thanks a million,  its been a week of worry and frustration, hopefully over.

Spoke too soon - worked for a few minutes and again asking for password

Ok, to update this problem. I have an old Boxee Box media streamer and hooked this up to the Ethernet cable instead of my win 7 pc running xbmc. Guess what - connects and streams fine. So this tells me my Unraid box and Router are not the problem!!  It seems to be an issue with windows 7?? Both computers running windows 7, albeit a recent issue as both worked fine for over a year.

i'm having the same exact issues, i even upgraded to Plus license hoping it would fix the problem, most of the computers in the house ask for network credentials, except one windows 7 pc, i'm gonna try to run checkdisk on the flash drive, hopefully that would do it, this thing is driving me crazyy !!!

i'm having the same exact issues, i even upgraded to Plus license hoping it would fix the problem, most of the computers in the house ask for network credentials, except one windows 7 pc, i'm gonna try to run checkdisk on the flash drive, hopefully that would do it, this thing is driving me crazyy !!!

Have you tried clearing existing Windows Credentials on the machines having problems?

i'm having the same exact issues, i even upgraded to Plus license hoping it would fix the problem, most of the computers in the house ask for network credentials, except one windows 7 pc, i'm gonna try to run checkdisk on the flash drive, hopefully that would do it, this thing is driving me crazyy !!!

Have you tried clearing existing Windows Credentials on the machines having problems?

I have removed everything from the Credential manager, also "net use * /delete" did not return anything, unraid is set up with root no password just for testing, but it still ask for credentials on some computers, any ideas/suggestions i would really appreciate Thanks

looks like after rebooting all the pcs and restarting the array its letting me connect with root no pw, lets hope things stay that way

looks like after rebooting all the pcs and restarting the array its letting me connect with root no pw, lets hope things stay that way

As I mentioned above, unRAID no longer allows the user named root to access network shares. If you have your shares set as public, the user name should not matter since everyone has full access to public shares. I never log in to unRAID shares from Windows and I can access all my public shares from any machine regardless of the Windows user.