NASLite Network Attached Storage

I'm having trouble trying to map a network drive or connect via SMB on a Windows XP PC that is part of my work domain. I am able to connect from other XP pc's on the same workgroup and from other mac's.

I can connect to the box, but I am queried for a login (See attachment)..

Any ideas on how to get around this?

Thanks!

naslite is a workgroup servere so if it's not part of the domain, then you'll not be able to connect.

ok, just to make sure I'm clear,

The NAS is on a local network as a workgroup. I am connecting the work pc (which is setup to be part of my work domain) to this home local network. I have set the NAS up on 192.168.1.50 and can connect to it via my work PC, it's just the authentication that's the issue. works fine with ftp/telnet, just not smb.

Are you saying I won't be able to connect as long as the work PC is setup on a domain?

Any other ideas on how to stream content (.avi's) from the NAS to WMP or VLC?

Thanks!

Hi,

I have a similar setup with the NAS box and home PC's and with the work laptop which is on a Domain.

To get the work laptop to connect I have 2 shortcuts on the quick launch menu that run 2 simple batch files.

This connects:

@echo off
cls
echo.
echo *****************************************************
echo * This batch file maps the drive letters R, S, T & U *
echo * to the NASLite-2 NAS Drives 0, 1, 2 & 3 *
echo *****************************************************
echo.
echo Press any key to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel
echo.
pause > nul
Rem These are the commands to connect the network drives.
net use R: \\NASLite-2\Disk-0 /USER:NASUser
net use S: \\NASLite-2\Disk-1 /USER:NASUser
net use T: \\NASLite-2\Disk-2 /USER:NASUser
net use U: \\NASLite-2\Disk-3 /USER:NASUser
echo.
echo Press any key to continue
echo.
pause > nul

When finished I run this batch file to disconnect:

@echo off
cls
echo.
echo **************************************************
echo * This batch file disconnects the NASLite-2 mapped drives *
echo **************************************************
echo.
echo Press any key to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel
echo.
pause > nul
Rem This is the command to disconnect the mapped network drives.
net use R: /delete
net use S: /delete
net use T: /delete
net use U: /delete
echo.
echo Press any key to continue
echo.
pause > nul

You may need to change the drive letters used and the disk references. I have 4 HDD's in my NAS.
Hope this helps.

Geoff

Thread rename and sticky?

Works great! Thanks very much! Suggested title for the post anyone?

Drive mapping via SMB on a Windows Domain PC.

(i.e. this script *may* work on XP, Vista and W7)