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finny23j
Aspirant
Apr 19, 2019
Solved

Unable to Map drives after setting up Orbi RBR50 mesh network

I have updated my Netgear router to the Orbi RBR50 Mesh network. Since then I have not been able to map drives to computers around the house. Windows says that it is able to connect but the device is...
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    FURRYe38
    May 02, 2019

    Glad you found the problem and fixed it.

    Please mark your thread as solved so others will know for future referece.

     

    Enjoy. :smileywink:

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finny23j
Aspirant
May 01, 2019

Hey Furry,

 

Some more investigation with the device I am trying to map to, I found that I had updated the anti-virus to Norton and it automatically blocked filesharing. Once I added the devices as "Trusted Devices" I was able to map drives to them. 

 

Thanks again for your suggestions. It was very helpful.

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
May 02, 2019

Glad you found the problem and fixed it.

Please mark your thread as solved so others will know for future referece.

 

Enjoy. :smileywink: