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shoemoney
Tutor
Apr 17, 2015

Disappointed with lack of knowledge of support #25012209

unboxed my 516, installed 6 5tb wd red drives, booted and like a dumbass installed about every plugin (hey I was excited). The web interface went down and reboot whatever wouldn't work. I ca...
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BaJohn
Virtuoso
Apr 18, 2015
StephenB wrote:
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.
So I am not the only one. I was leaving this 'quirk' till later, but knowing you can't fix it suggests I shouldn't bother either.
Perhaps others can comment on this minor irritation. There could be simple answer out there.

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