I have a home Windows network with two LinkSys GigaDrive fileservers nd “Napier” and “Mrs. Napier” logons and passwords and group shares the same on all the PCs and fileservers. For some reason, Mrs. apier can’t access fileserver2. She can access fileserver1 and I can access both. We should be able to access shares on this fileserver based on our network ID, without any logons other than when starting our desktop PCs, and this is how it works in the other cases. But when she tries to access fileserver2 she gets fileserver2’s dialog asking her for username and password, and when she enters these and clicks OK the dialog box just instantly returns - no errors, no access. This dialog never appears on fileserver1 or for me on fileserver2.
However, if we answer this dialog box with the administrator logon and password, she can access fileserver2. In fact she can access everybody’s shares and read files in them. This seems to remain true throughout the Windows logon session. Since Mrs. Napier is a little hazy on the differences between files and folders and disk drives and applications, this is not a safe workaround. But obviously several layers of hardware are working if she can access the drive after using an admin logon for its dialog (and this is while logged into Windows as
Mrs. Napier).
I’ve tried to make the two setups identical. There is one weird difference: on ileserver2, which houses 2 hard disks, the shares DISK1 and DISK2 are listed ighlighted in red on the built-in GigaDrive configuration web page. I can’t browse hem on this page; I get the error “No folder is associated with this share, se ‘repair’ on the maintenance screen to correct this problem.” I don’t know and can’t find any maintenance screen (I mean, they’re ALL for maintenance) or any “repair” function either browsing the config util or looking through the
manual. However, so much else is working that I think this is just a red
herring. Another difference is that fileserver2 has two drives installed
whereas fileserver1 has only one. A third difference is that I bought
fileserver1 new several years ago and set it all up, whereas fileserver2
I bought used and reconfigured it (and for some reason can’t delete a
couple of the folders that were on it, not having permission). Fourth,
they’re slightly different version numbers.
Any ideas from the dopers???