I had all my folders public and its been working well forever.  I decided to create a new user and create a user share for that user.  Its set as private.  When I go to access it from the windows 7 laptop (on a domain) or my windows 10 desktop (not on a domain) it prompts for a username and password which I enter as I configured in unraid.  I tried just scott, I tried .\scott, I tried workgroup\scott, nothing seems to work.  it always gives me an access is denied message.  If I sent the security of the folder to secure or public I can access the folder fine.  I am not sure what else to try.  any suggestions?

Have you tried servername\scott.    That is what is normally needed for a server.

 

If the username/password are the same on both your Windows machine and the server then you normally do not get prompted.

Have you tried servername\scott.    That is what is normally needed for a server.

 

If the username/password are the same on both your Windows machine and the server then you normally do not get prompted.

 

just tried it: fileserver\scott

 

Still no permissions error

sometimes its tied to the windows login name as well. make it all match,

Clear your credentials with credential manager.  There was a posting from Tom a ways back that detailed exactly why this happens (a windows issue)

Clear your credentials with credential manager.  There was a posting from Tom a ways back that detailed exactly why this happens (a windows issue)

 

Found it.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7047.0

Ah ha.  I tried clearing cache a bunch of ways I found on-line but nothing worked.  A reboot of my laptop did clear it up though.  I guess that cleared the cached credentials.  Thanks guys for the help.