Problems browsing a NAS

[csy2002]

Please help!!!

I'm a MAC newbie and recently bought a MacBook Pro for my fiancee.

First thing I tried to do was back the MAC up to our NAS (Seagate Blackarmor 440) and as you will know you can't do this easily so I followed this website instructions:
http://appleclinic.wordpress.com/200...achine-on-nas/
So you know what I have done.

Time machine was working great and backing up.

Trouble is now we cannot browse the NAS. It will show us the top level folders but nothing that is within them, this was working perfectly before.

Since then I have undone the unsupported devices thing, well I ran the command again with a 0 instead.
I have stopped Time Machine doing the backup.
Also I have got the OS to ask which account to use when connecting to the NAS.

Any help would be greatly aprreciated and will probably save parts of my anatomy!

Thanks in advance.

[csy2002]

Further to this we have restored the MAC to it's original settings and it is still not working.

Nothing on the NAS has changed.

[Satcomer]

In 10.6.2 some Users on NAS equipment have report that bacause of bug in 10.6.2 it doesn't recognize capital of small letter in SMB connections. So in your SMB password use only CAPITAL letter is the password for now until the bug is fixed later on. This might help.

[csy2002]

Hey thanks for getting back to me Satcomer, I'd just about given up hope.

I tried your solution but alast it didn't work.

It's a really strange and random problem and differs each time we connect to the NAS.
Sometimes we cannot see the contents of the folder and sometimes we can, when we can see the contents sometimes we can see into certain sub-folders and other times we cannot.

Is there a number of folder levels MACs can browse?
Does it have problems with certain characters in file names?
Is there a limit on the number of files in can view within a folder?

The things that work on the MAC are absolutely fantastic but little things like this are giving me a new found appreciation for a certain other operating system

[hardingdgh]

Purchased MacBook Pro for daughter going into college. Have Hawking Technologies HNAS1 NAS. Has worked great for years for all my PC in my WORKGROUP network. If I set permissions on NAS to allow guest then her Mac can see and access the files. Of course I don't want to leave my network unprotected. Called Apple and suggested creating a userid/password = test/test. Even that simply "test" didn't work. Apply must know there is a bug but becuase the NAS isn't Apple's the blame it on the 3rd party hardware. I thought Mac's were supposed to be easier and better support :-(