Strange … it finds the shares on my Linkstation (NAS) and backs up to them without issue ???
Strange ... it finds the shares on my Linkstation (NAS) and backs up to them without issue
To be honest I don’t normally have any problems accessing that share or any shares for that matter on my NAS, but it seems to be a problem with Redo, but I think the real underlying problem is probably the way I have the NAS set up because I don’t really understand how this users, groups, permissions thing really work, I just can’t get my head around it, One of the reasons I’m trying out OMV is in the hope that this amongst other things may be more understandable for me being Linux based, as it is all the share permissions on the NAS are set to root/wheel (whatever that means) but it seems to work so I just leave it at that.
Graeme
Have you tried not entering a username and password ? … I take it your NAS allows “guest” access without authentication ?
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Have you tried not entering a username and password ? .. I take it your NAS allows "guest" access without authentication ?
I would say yes on both counts, but I can double check this evening after work and let you know
Many thanks
Graeme
On the offchance it has a “guest” account … you might also try
Username: guest
Password:
Hi
Ok I tried every permutation of username (Graeme, root, guest, admin) password, no password it still wont let me access the shared drive, I have absolutely no idea what username and password it’s looking for , I can say that I have only ever used one username and one password on this system and they don’t work and that I do have “allow guest access enabled”, I also tried my other shared drives and I’m getting the same error message show up with these
Graeme
If I understand you correctly, when booted ito Redo and trying to save to shares over the network then you are not bound by your OMV settings.
Just in case the old DNS isnt working, try to access the other shares with their IP address instead of their names:
///Share instead of ///Share
Hi SeZo
Thanks for your help
I hope I understand you right, but I can only select the destination drives from a dropdown list, I have no way (that I can see) of changing share-names to ip addresses
Graeme
Have you tried to type into the dropdown box (before you make any selection)?
Sometimes they are combo boxes insted of listboxes
Hi
Ignore that last post it looks like you’re absolutely right, there was an option to manually type the address and that looks like it working
Thank You 
Graeme
OK then.
One other option would have been to create a smaller partition on your 80 gb drive and do the backup there.
I have one particularly large drive connected to the NAS that is used only to back up all other drives so it makes sense to put it there, at least that’s where I would like to keep it
It’s very slow but I think that’s because I have a wireless connection, Mark did warn me it would be slow.
So at the expense of pushing my luck can you tell me why it worked by manually typing the path rather than selecting from a drop-down list, and is it fixable ?
Graeme
So at the expense of pushing my luck can you tell me why it worked by manually typing the path rather than selecting from a drop-down list, and is it fixable ?
I cannot be sure (it was a pure guesswork on my part) but I had a similar experience where (accidentaly) I set up the fixed IP address onto a wrong (different) subnet from my usual subnet example 10.0.1.25 instead of 10.0.0.25. To cut it short
I was not able to make use of the DNS server but could ping the IP addess of another machine across the subnets.
So at the expense of pushing my luck can you tell me why it worked by manually typing the path rather than selecting from a drop-down list, and is it fixable ?
As SeZo suggests … if you typed in the IP instead of going with the server name in the path … then DNS isn’t working (it may be a setting in the Redo network manager, or it could be your router)
Kinda odd that it would discover the path by hostname though ???
As SeZo suggests .. if you typed in the IP instead of going with the server name in the path .. then DNS isn't working (it may be a setting in the Redo network manager, or it could be your router)Kinda odd that it would discover the path by hostname though
Well if you guys don’t completely understand it what chance have I got, but the important thing is it works and I’m happy with that
So I think all’s left for me is to thank you and SeZo for your help once again and mark this solved
Graeme
For my part … you’re welcome