Nope based on the wording you posted earlier my guess is you have the
credentials entered wrong or not at all and it’s trying to use default user
names or the wrong account to connect. I could be wrong here but this is my
guess.
Thanks
On Jul 23, 2020, at 7:39 AM, Dane Trethowan <grtdane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually no, I didn’t think of that rather I thought the problem might be on
the side of the drive given that no other machines on the network can access
it.
On 22 Jul 2020, at 11:58 pm, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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
<mailto: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?
