Disappointed with lack of knowledge of support #25012209

BaJohn wrote:
Perhaps the Netgear team should denigrate the use of the term Frontview, as ambiguous. It is the Admin web page, so why not say so.

Well, that is what they are doing in the OS6 manual - "local admin page". I've been trying to shift to "web admin page" since OS6 but my fingers are very used to typing frontview at this point. Anyway, the OP called it that, so I stuck with it.

BaJohn wrote:
I just type 'XNAS' in the internet explorer window, as that has been setup in my 'hosts' file.

You shouldn't actually need a hosts file anymore, its an obsolete concept that predates DNS. The NAS name should be discovered w/o it on most networks. Though some other devices don't let you set the names - I guess it could be useful for that.

BaJohn wrote:
On your point about using 'Network', this is interesting. I always see the NAS in the 'storage' devices, intermittently in the 'media devices' (comes and goes), and I have never seen the shares in the 'computer' device.

Devices do tend to come and go on the windows list. Yesterday I saw all NAS in all three categories. Today Computer is missing, but the other two are there. I gave up trying to figure out exactly how windows decides to classify devices a long time ago.