Model: TS-XLD64
Firmware version: 1.06
Our Active Directory domain requires "strong" passwords. All of our administrative passwords are designed to be very strong, with "punctuation" characters like "#", or ";", etc. Some of them even have "alt" characters in them that must be entered by holding down the "alt" key and typing in the decimal value of the character.
When joining an Active Directory domain, the TeraStation filters the password, unnecessarly, and forbids any characters other than alphas, numerals, "-" and "_".
If you try to enter an administrative network password that contains other characters (even though they are valid passwords as windows administrators) you get the following error message:
The Administrator Password contains at least one invalid character.
The Administrator Password may include 256 alphanumerical characters, a hyphen `-`, and an underscore `_`.
And, then, the TeraStation doesn't even attempt to join the AD domain.
There's no reason to attempt to "filter" the Administrator's password when joining an NT or AD domain. Simply let the password be whatever it is.
Plenty of Window's passwords contain characters outside of that limited set that the TeraStation enforces.
Thanks,
Mark