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Author Topic: Easy Search can't map unless the admin password is blank ?  (Read 4774 times)

TJH

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Easy Search can't map unless the admin password is blank ?
« on: March 23, 2011, 04:15:13 PM »
I've tried searching the forum on this, and there are a lot of mapping concerns that come up but I haven't found my particular issue on the forum yet:

On a couple occasions now I've lost the network path to my DNS-323 from my Win 7 laptop (which I now realize seems to happen if I click on that network drive from a user account on my laptop that wasn't set up for it, and then switch back to the user account I usual access it with - now of course I'll try to avoid doing that).

The only way I know how to re-map to that drive is with the Easy Search utility as I did in the first place. But I've found that the Easy Search can't map to the drive that way again unless I go through the configuration and remove my password, returning it to the default setting of having the password field blank. Once that's done, I'm able to re-map the network path.

Am I missing something here, or is this the norm? I don't want to leave the password field blank permanently, but I'm nervous about the possibility of not being able to access my data if I lose the network path again and can't reconfigure passwords through the utility for some reason.
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dosborne

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Re: Easy Search can't map unless the admin password is blank ?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2011, 05:43:12 PM »
Your issue sounds bizarre and I would be surprised if it really came down to a password or not.

However, if you assign a static IP address to the NAS, then you should be able to avoid the issue entirely. I don't run Win7, but I've never run the easysearch utility. Never had a need to.
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Re: Easy Search can't map unless the admin password is blank ?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2011, 07:11:40 PM »
I was able to configure my wife's Win 7 machine so she was able to use our DNS-323.  Have you tried restarting the laptop before you reconnect to the DNS-323?  Once the password is established it has always been required unless I reset the system to factory default settings.

However you get back in as admin, create all the users you will allow access to the system.  If they exist, I don't think you will have a problem mapping the drive.
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TJH

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Re: Easy Search can't map unless the admin password is blank ?
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2011, 01:50:30 PM »
Thank you very much for leaving some feedback.

For the most part, I've had no trouble accessing the DNS-323 from my laptop and desktop since initially setting it up a couple months ago. I have confidential client files on this unit, so I set up a user/password (separate from the configuration login/password). Thus when my computer has been restarted I normally have to log in when accessing that drive (all good).

Today again when I started the laptop up and clicked on that drive, the network path failed again (but was fine from the desktop). All I had to do was log in through the config and remove the config password to the default (blank), and the network path was restored (previously I ran the EasySearch utility to re-map to that drive the first couple times this happened... but now I realize that wasn't necessary... as soon as the password is removed it works fine).
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