Windows 10: Can access just the public folder

Hello all and thanks in advance for your support I just reinstalled windows 10 with latest updates and I am using a QNAP NAS with QTS 4.5.3 with IP 192.168.0.4 (this is a fantasy IP of course) typing \\192.168.0.4 in windows explorer results in showing JUST the Pblic folder and I am not asked for the NAS credentials The NAS configuration is tha same as before (i.e. whene everything was working and I can still access the nas folders from other PCs) When I access the NAS folders windows strangely does not ask for any user and password and I cannot remember how to set this manually ... the server name is NAS-ZP. I was never able to access it by \\NAS-ZP... I am using explicit IP, still I would like to use the NET BIOS name. Any hints? Please help

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Duplicate Public Folders

Hope this helps someone identify the problem.

• Q: What happens when you delete the duplicate folders?
• A: Nothing. They're successfully deleted.

• Q: Does it happen to all of your folders or only those with pictures?
  • A: Only the default Public Folders (Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos).
  • A: All of the Public Folders have customized folder icons.
  • A: The above image shows yellow, empty folder icons (duplicates).

• Q: Any steps you've tried to troubleshoot this issue?
  • Actually, this has been a problem since Windows 7.
  • What I noticed then is that certain Windows programs created the duplicates:
    • Windows Media Player (stopped using)
    • Internet Explorer (stopped using)
    • Plus others, which I can't recall.
  • Only certain programs for Windows 10, as well:
    • Microsoft Edge (don't use it often)
      
    • Groove Music (never intentionally use it)
      
    • Plus others, which I haven't tracked.
      • I only notice it when I go to Public Folders.
      • By then, I've long since forgotten what was accessed.
  • I've googled for answers but most of those only address
    moving the Public Folders to another Drive.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Windows 7 Exchange and Public Folder access.

No. Public folders never seem to make it high enough on the "to do list" to get included. Even though Exchange ActiveSync access is greatly improved, it isn't there. This I believe requries work on the Exchange server too as the EAS component doesn't give
visiblity to public folders.

You could try accessing via Outlook Web Access but 1) I haven't tried that to see if it works and 2) it is a download only situation, not a sync situation.

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