Windows (10) doesn’t allow the same resource twice

Written by  on February 4, 2021 

So, the NAS* I use for years is separated into different partitions. Some for general access and things and one for music, which has a special user, which owns just read-only privileges.

Linux: no problem: mount as many shares with Gigolo and you are done.

Windows: use that 90s-style network-mount of the ‘explorer’ and add share by resource and credentials.
“\\ds213\musik” .. Works, but is awkward and not comfortable.
then you want to mount the second share with different credentials and you get “Can’t mount the same share** with different credentials”.

Workaround:
mount once by resource-name and once by ip: “\\192.168.178.178\musik”

Another approach via the hosts-file.

* DS213 from Synology: 2 bay; now running 24/7 for 5 (?) years; upgraded inbetween from 2 TByte drives to 4 TB with complete replication
** is actually “different shares at the same host”, but who am I with my limited knowledge?

Category : sambaSynologyWin