I'm sorry to post a new thread, but I will be building an unRAID sever for a client soon and I absolutely MUST have this figured out first. I have Googled for hours and found nothing helpful.

 

I have my own personal unRAID server that I am testing this on. Basically, I just want to make a share that is password protected at the end-user level. Simple. Yet when I configure security on my share, the username and password that I choose server-side do not work on my Windows machine. When prompted on my workstation, I type in the username and password (configured on the server) and my workstation kicks back an error saying that it's not accessible. 

 

The machines in the office where my clients work are all iMacs, so I'm hoping I can figure this out in a way that will work there since I don't have a Mac myself to test with. So for that reason, my share has AFP enabled and exporting as Time Machine, but even if I only share with SMB, I still have the same problem.

Have I just configured something badly?

unraid-diagnostics-20170601-1557.zip

Have you made sure that you use the Windows Credentials Manager to clear any existing credentials for the unRAID server?   If you have not then there is a good chance that Windows is trying to use a cached username/password and that is messing things up.   Also if you have both public and private shares make sure that you first try to connect to the secure one before trying the public one to make sure the correct credentials are used as Windows does not allow two sets of credentials to be used with the same server.

Tried clearing credentials. No change. Still can't access my private test share. And also, that's an annoying problem. Is there a workaround for that?

 

Will MacOS have that problem too?

Edited June 1, 20179 yr by Ruckus42

I have to bump this. It's pretty important that I get this figured out. The client will be giving me a deposit soon. I figured this would be really easy, but if this is going to be a real problem, I might have to cancel the job.

On 6/1/2017 at 5:06 AM, Ruckus42 said:

 

Will MacOS have that problem too?

Edited Thursday at 05:21 AM by Ruckus42

I can't help with Windows, but I can tell you that I have never had any problem like you're reporting with SMB or AFP on any of my Macs.

Well that gives me a little more confidence. So you have multiple shares with different privacy levels? Are you willing to tell me what you have set up? Shares and privacy levels?

2 hours ago, Ruckus42 said:

Well that gives me a little more confidence. So you have multiple shares with different privacy levels? Are you willing to tell me what you have set up? Shares and privacy levels?

Mine are all rather basic. Most have a single user with rw access and other users have no access. I have one share that has multiple (3) users with rw access.

Be sure to read not only this post but the next few as well to see if you are the victim of one of these subtle SMB traps.