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Title: DNS-321 and Windows 7 & Vista backup
Post by: slaughlin on January 12, 2010, 05:28:50 PM
Thinking about buying a DNS-321 to do daily backup from my two Windows 7 and one Vista PC.  The current NAS doesn't talk conisitently with these PC.  I plan to use the built-in Windows backup stuff.  Anyone have any advice one way or the other about how well the DNS-321 gets along with this setup?  Thanks in advance
Title: Re: DNS-321 and Windows 7 & Vista backup
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on January 13, 2010, 05:38:52 AM
I have three Windows 7 machines, two Vista machines, a few XP machines, and one Linux box.  The DNS-321 and DNS-323 both get along just fine with this mix of O/S versions.
Title: Re: DNS-321 and Windows 7 & Vista backup
Post by: Danielo on January 20, 2010, 06:57:39 AM
Gunnerjohn...what User/Password are you using when requested by Windows 7?

I am trying to do an image back-up on Win 7 64bit pro and it keeps on asking me for the password for the network drive, otherwise the option to continue is greyed out.

Funny thing is, that there are no passwords placed on the DNS-321...it is open to everyone on the network. I have been looking on the Win 7 forums and there seems to be no solutions I have found as of yet. Someone on this forum suggested using the user "EVERYONE" with no password, but I haven't checked to see if this works yet.

Until I find a solution, I consider the "back-up to network" functionality of Windows 7 broken :(
Title: Re: DNS-321 and Windows 7 & Vista backup
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on January 20, 2010, 07:52:39 AM
I have password protected shares on my drives, so I'm not sure of the behavior of Windows 7 with anonymous shares.  I can tell you that I have a friend with the DNS-323 with firmware 1.07 and Windows 7, he has no issues accessing the drive with anonymous shares (no passwords).
Title: Re: DNS-321 and Windows 7 & Vista backup
Post by: Danielo on January 20, 2010, 09:28:05 AM
Do you know what username your friend uses? I am hoping it will work with a common username ("Everyone") and no password - I bought the Win 7 Pro specifically to allow me to do Network back-ups.

I should have clarified in my previous post that Win 7 keeps on asking me for the USERNAME AND THE password for the network drive...I have not yet tried it with just a username, but it should alow me to continue with no password if I select the correct username :o
Title: Re: DNS-321 and Windows 7 & Vista backup
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on January 20, 2010, 10:29:13 AM
With anonymous shares, you don't need a password.  When I had mine configured that way, anyone could browse the network and simply connect to the share with no security.  That was true for anything from Windows 2000 through Windows 7.