User name and password (blank password) not accepted after setting up new user

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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Have not been able to use my MBL since purchase. On instalation it required a firmware upgrade, this did not work well and had to use a fix. Now when I create a new user with a blank password it will not allow access to that users share’s. When the user name is entered and P/W left blank it just requests the user name and password again and so on. V02.32.05-046 coreF/ W.

Can anyone help please

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You cannot create a Private Share with no password and connect to it via Windows (At least, with Windows 7…)

Just tried it myself. 

You must have a password.

Linux can connect fine, so it must just be a Windows thing…

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Thanks for the reply but the same thing happens if I do create a password.

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It doesn’t give an error message?

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No there is no error message. I just enter the user name and password and it just kicks straight back to the same box asking for the user name and password again. I have tried deleteing shares and and users, then started afresh with new user names and passwords but the same thing happens.

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Try to do the mapping via the COMMAND LINE.

Hopefully that will generate a message that will help out.

The syntax for the command is

net use [drive letter:] \drivename\sharename

so it should be like this:

c:\windows> net use f: \\mybooklive\testshare
Enter the user name for 'mybooklive': testuser
Enter the password for mybooklive: 
The command completed successfully

c:> windows>
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Ok when try to map by cmd prompt I get the error message “System error 67 has occoured” network path not found

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Well,that’ll give you something to Google…

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OK thanks for your interest.

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Ok found the answer posted by Myron to archiew’s post “cannot connect to private share from Vista explorer” thanks to them both.

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Hi,

I have the same problem.

You said you found the answer at:

Ok found the answer posted by Myron to archiew’s post “cannot connect to private share from Vista explorer” thanks to them both.

How do I find that?

This is so frustrating. 

Thanks,

Jeff