Im currently trying to backup my computer over the network and save it on the nas but in order to save over the network i need to type a username and password.

 

I was thinking it would be root/root but it clearly doesn't work. It also doesn't allow me to type no username or password at all either.

 

HERES WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT

well i found out what it was

 

USERNAME: username

PASSWORD: password

 

that was convenient

That's also pretty odd, I was expecting it to be

Username: root

password: (Blank)

 

 

The GUI allows users to be set up on unRAID, with individual passwords, so that shares can be private, though some people just use public shares.

 

Some utilities won't accept a null password, and it's a bad idea anyway with the root account.

 

That's also pretty odd, I was expecting it to be

Username: root

password: (Blank)

 

When you are talking about accessing a data share via Samba (and probably NFS), root is specifically excluded from being either an owner or a member of a group.  This was done back in the days of ver 5 development for security reasons.  (Prior to that change, root was the owner of all shares by default!)

 

That is the reason that we have the New Permissions tool was to make the change of the owner to nobody and (I believe) the group to users for all share files and directories. 

The GUI allows users to be set up on unRAID, with individual passwords, so that shares can be private, though some people just use public shares.

 

Some utilities won't accept a null password, and it's a bad idea anyway with the root account.

I don't disagree that it's not exactly a great idea. Still that's what I expected it to be if you've not set anything else up.

 

However I see it's nobody instead which makes sense.

That's also pretty odd, I was expecting it to be

Username: root

password: (Blank)

 

When you are talking about accessing a data share via Samba (and probably NFS), root is specifically excluded from being either an owner or a member of a group.  This was done back in the days of ver 5 development for security reasons.  (Prior to that change, root was the owner of all shares by default!)

 

That is the reason that we have the New Permissions tool was to make the change of the owner to nobody and (I believe) the group to users for all share files and directories.

 

This makes sense and the shift to Nobody makes sense too, but it doesn't really explain what happened with this user who found it to be

 

USERNAME: username

PASSWORD: password

 

which seems really odd unless he made a user named "username" with the password "password" which seems unlikely given the question he was asking....

 

This makes sense and the shift to Nobody makes sense too, but it doesn't really explain what happened with this user who found it to be

 

USERNAME: username

PASSWORD: password

 

which seems really odd unless he made a user named "username" with the password "password" which seems unlikely given the question he was asking....

 

But when you look at the screen capture, it mentions that "Network Credentials"  and "Windows Backup"  are requesting the username and password.  I tend to suspect that this is being requested by some program (Windows Backup???) that will be used at the  appropriate time in the backup process.  There may be a default username and password built into the program. I am shooting a bit in the dark here but the OP does say, "well i found out what it was" and "that was convenient".  Almost, like he found in the Doc's or by googling...

 

This makes sense and the shift to Nobody makes sense too, but it doesn't really explain what happened with this user who found it to be

 

USERNAME: username

PASSWORD: password

 

which seems really odd unless he made a user named "username" with the password "password" which seems unlikely given the question he was asking....

 

But when you look at the screen capture, it mentions that "Network Credentials"  and "Windows Backup"  are requesting the username and password.  I tend to suspect that this is being requested by some program (Windows Backup???) that will be used at the  appropriate time in the backup process.  There may be a default username and password built into the program. I am shooting a bit in the dark here but the OP does say, "well i found out what it was" and "that was convenient".  Almost, like he found in the Doc's or by googling...

 

No i didn't google or find it like that it was literally trial and error

 

username/password was my 9-12th attempt

 

tried variations of current passwords throughout my unRAID server ranging from root/root to root/singlespace to singlespace/root user/root root/user and eventually just tried username/password and was like oh ok i guess didnt really complain after finding it