Insufficient privelidges on network drive

[johngee]

Insufficient priviliges on network drive

I had a well running home network of three XP computers that worked perfectly, including a Western Digital "MyBook" NAS drive.

After much sweat and some cursing I've managed to get my Win7 Ultimate computer to communicate with it all, but the NAS drive remains a problem.

If, from my Win7 computer, I try to add a new folder to the NAS drive, it says I have insufficient permissions. If I got to Properties/Security for the NAS I see that "Everyone" is highlighted and only "Special Permissions" is ticked. If I click edit and try to establish full permissions for "Everyone" it won't let me do that either - "Access is Denied".

More sweating and cursing to no avail (I can still add folders etc. from the XP computers).

Can anyone help with this one?

Regards

 

[chev65]

With older NAS box's you sometimes need to make adjustments to the Local Security Policy settings of the Win7 machine in order to gain access. The required settings.

Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Local Security Policy

Local Policies - Security Options

Network security: LAN Manager authentication level
Set to Send LM & NTLM responses only

Set the Minimum session security for NTLM SSP
Disable Require 128-bit encryption

Reboot all machines after making the adjustment.

 

[johngee]

Many thanks Chev65, I will look at this later and let you know what happened.

Regards

John