You’re sounding like you’re missing your connection credentials on the client
side. Pure guess here but if you’re getting a permissions error and or
prompted for password you need to create a user with access to the volumes
you’re sharing and then enter the credentials in to the client.
This may be something you’ve already done so apologies if I’m covering
old ground.
On Jul 21, 2020, at 9:26 PM, Dane Trethowan <grtdane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good Morning Everyone.
I’m having trouble accessing external USB drives connected to a Mac Mini
through my network from other computers.
I know the Mac Mini the drives are connected to is working, the machine is a
Mac Mini Server and I can access the internal drives of the machine but not
the new Seagate Expansion drives I bought specifically to use with that
machine.
I’ve turned sharing on for both the connected drives and I’ve “Unlocked” both
the drives but no result.
On the Windows machine I’m asked to enter a Password whereas on other Mac
machines I get a Permissions error.
Initially both the Seagate drives were NTFS formatted but that shouldn’t have
made a difference given that I have Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon
Software installed on the Mac Mini Server machine.
I’ve since converted both the Seagate Expansion drives to Mac OS Extended
Journaled format in the hope this may have soved the problem.
Perhaps someone can tell me what I’m missing?
