Connect nas drive to mac

We have a CoolMax NAS drive CN-330; all the PC's on the network can access it just fine.
However we have a MAC, which opens up the shares just fine... however trying to save anything on the NAS from MAC gives the error "action could not be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges" we have tried using protocols including SMB; however it still gives the same error message.
Please advice.

You may be connected as guest. To write files, you probably will need to be a registered user and log in.
Try connecting in the usual way, then open a Finder window and click on the mounted drive in the Finder window sidebar. It will open a window showing the shared device, with a header inside the window saying connected as :<username> or <guest>. There are buttons there to connect as a specific user, or disconnect and re-connect as a specific user.
Some other articles remind us that the firewalls beteen computers can cause problems if all the correct ports are not opened. If you are using DHCP on a Router you control, you do not need the firewalls on individual computers.

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