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Using XR500 and unable to connect to shared PC with file explorer
Hello, I have been working on this for awhile now, I am using the XR500 DumaOS 3.0 beta .120 build but I doubt that is the issue. I am guessing it is a DNS issue somewhere but after searching...
Netduma-Liam This is my 4th reply to this and it is getting very irritating retyping everything. At first I thought it was my issue but I don't think so. Trying again...
The 2 PCs are:
Asus G11CD
Digital Storm build
Both using Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 19042.928 (20H2)
Modem: Motorola MB8600
Router: XR500 v2.3.2.120 beta
The 2 PCs are both hardwired to the XR500 router with cat8. They are approximately 6 feet apart and 2-3 feet each from the router and modem which are in a table in bewteen.
There are some wireless devices but not involved in this scenario.
Router changes:
IP of router
PCs IP addresses are in the reservation table per a test for the device manager
IPV6 enabled, auto detect
DNS severs are Cloudflare and Cisco
Sorry for the delay, I thought my posts were being posted,
John
Sorry to hear that your posts were not being made!
Could you confirm if you have access to the shared driver with both PCs connected directly to the modem? This means we'll know if this is something we can adjust in DumaOS/Netgear settings to make this work!
Netduma-Liam Unfortunately my modem only has one rj-45, so do not think it is possible.
I do have an old Netgear MR314 router I could hook up. Would that be sufficient to test your theory?
- Yes that could work.
Just to check, have you allowed both PCs to be discoverable on the local network? https://www.windowscentral.com/how-configure-network-discovery-windows-10-0Netduma-Fraser Looks like my previous posts caught up.
Ok, I hooked up the MR314 and same error, I also completely uninstalled Bitdefender, liking that security program less and less each day. It blocked me from logging into my modem, sheesh. I'l worry about that leater.
Below are screen shots of the network pages for each PC
[img]https://i.imgur.com/XGDTuhm.png[/img]
and
[img]https://i.imgur.com/2zHtX69.png?1[/img]
This is a net share of the remote PC
[img]https://i.imgur.com/HdfVBO7.png?1[/img]
I have FTP set up as I have mentioned
I have printer sharing working
I can remote login several ways
Next image is pings and nslookup from main/host PC
[img]https://i.imgur.com/6sqcgE1.png?1[/img]
