[pmrid (Peter)]

I'm trying to set up a NAS on my home LAN/WAN. It's nothing flash, just an out-of-the-box 1TB device that I picked up going through Singapore Airport a while back. It's connected to my PC via USB without problems but I want to put it on my home net so my wife can access the family pics etc.

But when I set it up using the supplied software etc, it tries to set up a desktop shortcut and goes off to search for the device but then says it can't find the device. Yet it shows up in the Network Tab. But when I try to click onto it by that link, I get this window asking me to enter a network ID and Password. I've never set a network password as such nor do I have any network ID other than my normal logon which is also Administrator level. In fact I'm the only user on this PC. And it isn't just looking for my standard logon ID/password. What the hell is it?

Any ideas apart from switching to Linux?


Peter