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I am getting "Device Name Has Reached Limit" when trying to name another device RBR850
Is it a number of devices you can name, have or characters in the naming, what is the limit? I have an RBR850 with 3 Satellites and 31 connected devices. Just trying to name a second NAS device, i...
In Access control
The device is listed at top as allowed with it's name, ip, mac, and as Wired device.
There are there are 0 listed in the Allowed devices not currently connected.
There are there are 0 listed in the Blocked devices not currently connected.
ketihsplace wrote:
In Access control
The device is listed at top as allowed with it's name, ip, mac, and as Wired device.
There are there are 0 listed in the Allowed devices not currently connected.
There are there are 0 listed in the Blocked devices not currently connected.
Thanks for taking the time to look at the Access Control tables. That would seem to rule out the number of devices as being pertinent to the discussion. (Although it beggars belief that there can be zero devices that have ever connected to the system and are not connected at this instance.)
The other obvious possibility is the number of characters in a device name, but I would think you have already tried to change this device to a very short name consisting of only alphabetic characters, correct?
p.s. on an RBR750, I find that the maximum length of a device name is 32 characters. Anything entered after that simply disappears.