I was playing around with folder persmissions and now I have set everything back to public, but can not access anything from my network.  I get the error "\\tower is not accessible.  You mihgt not have permission to use this network resource."

 

I can not even connect to any of my public shares as it asks me to log in and the password is never accepted .. What am I doing wrong?

Might want to detail a little more on the "playing around".  What necessitated the change select the security setting to "public".  What were the shares set to previously?  Is "export" set to "yes" on affected shares?

Edited April 15, 20179 yr by joedotmac

So I turned my media share (only) to private.  Once I hit apply I couldn't get to it...  I changed it back then still can't get to any of my stuff.  These are all user shares.

 

and yes Export and public is set to yes.

Access is denied to any share from another PC, but I can connect directly.

Edited April 15, 20179 yr by DTB7

Attached is a screenshot of what my share looks like.

 

Basically what I did was make it private, then I couldn't get to anything over the network.  Once I switched it back everything is still un available.

 

 

Did you happen to change anything in settings -> smb settings?

Can you browse to the share by \\IPADDRESS instead of \\TOWER?

6 minutes ago, Squid said:

Did you happen to change anything in settings -> smb settings?

Can you browse to the share by \\IPADDRESS instead of \\TOWER?

 

When I type that in it still asks for a user name / password.  Also note that neither of my valid usernames or passwords work to get me in there.

 

I did not mess around with the smb setting, but here is what that looks like in case it is wrong.

 

 

Just now, DTB7 said:

When I type that in it still asks for a user name / password.  Also note that neither of my valid usernames or passwords work to get me in there.

 

Then Windows has cached the credentials which is messing stuff up...

 

Since I've never had any issues of the sort, I can't really offer up advice short of clearing Windows network credentials.

 

This thread should help

But unfortunately none of the links in the OP are working properly

 

Have you taken the array offline, and restarted the array?  I would do the same for your external Windows host too.  Anything if signifcance while tailing the syslog and attempting to access the share?

I'm gonna try powering everything down for a bit see if that helps.  Also trying the local master plug in.

Still getting this every time I try to access.  Is there something I can do?  Should I pull the flash and see what the tailing syslog has?

Ok guys looks like I finally got this working.

 

What I did was change it back to secure.  Successfully log in.  Then log out.  Then change it back to public and it looks good.

 

I'm not going to call it "Solved" yet until I let this bake a while.

 

Again as always you guys on the forums are the best and super helpful.