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XR500 Readyshare W11 Home
Works perfectly on 2 W10 Pro laptops. Not so on 1 W11 Home, Sorry to say I don't remember if it ever worked on W11 machine or not. Years ago .. b4 W11, Gearhead gave me some instructions which has always fixed any problems I had (like readyshare not showing up in Explorer). Here are those instructions from my notes:
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Go to gpedit.msc
Under Group policy editor access the following :-
->Computer configuration\administrative templates\network\Lanman Workstation
->"Enable insecure guest logons"
#Go to services.msc
The following should to set to Automatic[Delayed Start]
->Function Discovery Provider Host
->Function Discovery Resource Publication
#Go to Programs and features
Under Turn on Windows Features
->SMB-1.0 File sharing support <<<<<<<<< There are 3 options nested. I always checked all 3
Restart then turn SMB off <<<<<<<<<< over time, these instructions stopped working unless I left SMB ON.
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Works great W10. I can MAP the two hard drives attached to the router and everything. Love it.
W11 .... at least not as such. Unable to MAP on W11 but I can access the drives through clicking on This PC/Network locations/ReadyDLNA: XR500. I can access directly but don't find a way to MAP.
Any help is appreciated in advance.
First of all, it (W10 Pro) is working perfectly!!!!!!!!! I can't be sure exactly what was wrong or what fixed it. I did a sfc and Dism routine and it would not complete. Rebooted machine. Did an elevated Disk Cleanup. It would not complete. Did a CCLEANER PRO routine which completed. Rebooted machine. Dism/sfc again. They completed. Disk Cleanup again and it completed. Rebooted machine and it came up just right. Problem solved. Now have mapped M: and N: readyshare drives in Explorer. Backing that up now then on to W11 Pro. I expect it to work. Will see soon. đ
Of course thank you Sir .... for everything. Will come back to mark SOLVED once I see W11 Pro on that machine.
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WacoJohn wrote:
Any help is appreciated in advance.
Does that mean that you want help in getting Readyshare to work in Windows 11?
For me at least it is simply a case of ensuring that SMB1 is enabled.
They have moved the way in.
>> Settings
>> System
>> Optional features
>> More Windows features
In my case, ReadySHARE drives are attached to a redundant R7800 router in AP mode. USB drives on ReadySHARE show up in the network as \\R7800\.
My experience is that Windows explorer, whatever the flavour, has a habit of losing network connections. This applies to NAS boxes as well as USB storage. I have to use the known location get at them. So I keep a set of shortcuts that I can take whenever I want to access external devices.
Disclaimer: Just another user with time on their hands.
"Does that mean that you want help in getting Readyshare to work in Windows 11?"
Yes.
SMB 1 (and options) is active. The only evident difference between you and me is the model of the router. Thank you for responding. W11 is configured just like the working W10 except for I can map drives on W10 machines and can't seem to on W11.
WacoJohn wrote:
The only evident difference between you and me is the model of the router.
It is no great secret that the XR500 is based on essentially the same hardware as the R7800.
Can you see your USB drives in the appropriate settings on the router?
Disclaimer: Just another user with time on their hands.
