NASLite Network Attached Storage

My NASLite-2 CDD v2.02 system has been running flawlessly for months without a hitch or reboot needed. However, one of its drives, a Seagate 250GB IDE, recently and inexplicably started acting like it is R/O. I often drag files back & forth from one of my XP or Mac workstations, create/delete folders, etc. on that drive. No more. Won't let me do a thing except read or copy files from the NASLite drive. I verified that it is indeed set to R/W, both at the general default level and at the individual disk. And I reapplied R/W setting to be sure. Also I ran a disk check on that drive and it passed without a hiccup. I have rebooted a few times and the disk always comes up reporting that it is R/W, but I still get an "Access Denied" error message (from Windows, for example) when I mount & navigate to that drive and try to create a folder, write a file to the disk, etc. I could also mention that it is set with SMART ON and a warning threshold at 90% (currently filled to 71%). What is going on here?

Try writing to that drive using ftp and see if there is an issue that way. If you can write fine then the problem is isolated to CIFS. Try writing using another machine and see if it behaves the same way. If so make sure both machines are set as members of the workgroup and not a domain. Those are what comes to mind offhand.

I'm not sure what would cause the sudden change unless you have virus/firewall software or a domain that is causing it.

Hope that helps...