I know others have had this problem before me, but I can’t understand the solutions posted & have no idea what I’ve done wrong so far. I’ve got a new EX2 Ultra, I’m not trying to use it for cloud access or use automatic backups - yet. All I want to do for now is set it up so that a number of local W10 laptops can access shares on the disk. If I set up a Public share it works fine, but I’ve no security. If I set up a share with restricted access, no user can access it, whether they’ve got permission or not. I get “Destination Folder Access Denied” & “you need permission to perform this action”, even though I thought I’d set permissions up OK. Help please - explained in simple terms!
One step at a time. You should probably create user accounts that have access to the same share.
- Create user accounts for each laptop.
- Create the share you want them all to have access to.
- Give access to each user account.
- Then test from each laptop.
You can’t test the accounts from the same Windows PC. Windows won’t access it. That’s a limitation with Windows Samba shares.
Thanks for the help. So I can’t test multiple accounts from the same PC. Does that mean I can’t even from different Windows users on the same PC? It seems to be working properly from one laptop (“PC J”) using the admin user, and from a 2nd PC (“K”) using “Windows user A” and “WD user X”, but not letting me have access to the same share from PC K, Windows user B, & WD user X. Even though Windows user A isn’t in session at the time. I can’t see anything relevant in the Windows Credentials on PC K in either user, but maybe I’m looking in the wrong place or not recognising the relevant credentials when I see them. Why could it be working from one Windows user but not the other on the same PC? And how do I fix it so I can make it work if I want to? Even a reboot doesn’t seem to resolve it. Is it to do with Windows Credentials being stored, & if so, how do I spot what to delete?
