I’m in the (slow) process of migrating from an XP machine to a new Vista machine at home. I have a NAS storage box that has a combination of personal folders (login name and password protected) as well as some open “shared user” folders so that all machines on the home network can store and access data.
On the XP machine I mapped two network drives, Z: to the shared folders and Y: to my personal folder. My XP login requires a password, which is the same as the storage password, so everything works OK.
In setting up the Vista machine I did the same thing, and everything worked just fine for about 2 weeks, then 2 days ago i was no longer able to access my external storage. I unmapped the drives and remapped. I am able to connect to the shared folders with no problems, but the “private” folder keeps asking me for user name and password. I fill in the boxes with the right information but get an error message saying I don’t have the rights. The message also goes on to say that multiple connections to a shared device with the same user name is not permitted! Even if I delete the mapping to the shared folder I cannot map to my private folder. I can see the NAS device when I open the network window, and can also see all the visible folders in the NAS device, but I still cannot log on to my private folder – even directly (i.e. not trying to map the drive).
As a hint, when I get the log-on error, I notice that Vista has appended the computer name to the user name – is this a clue?
I believe I have administrator privileges on the Vista machine but from what I read – that’s somewhat of a misnomer!
This is driving me NUTS.
