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My ReadyNAS does not show up as a Network Computer
Can someone tell me if the ReadyNAS is supposed to show up as a Network Computer? I can mount it as a Network Drive but no matter what setting I have tried it will not show up as a Network attached c...
Please have a quick (if you can) look at https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/windows-not-showing-ReadyNAS-name-in-network/m-p/945867.
Although the solution MAY not apply to you, there are lots of pointers and ideas in it.
I am not saying it will give you the solution (although it might), but we don't want to reinvent the wheel again, do we?
Regards and good luck on your quest.
Good night.
With Win7 and Win10, all mine show up under both the "computer" and the "storage" categories. The ones with DLNA enabled show up again as "media storage".
This is frankly hit-or-miss. A poster this morning had trouble getting them to show up in his network list, but power-cycling his switch resolved it. I created shortcuts on my wife's laptop, just to make sure she had a consistent way to get to the shares she uses.
I'm on my second day of owning the ReadyNAS and I just tried another power cycle but still it's a no show under network computers. The mounted drives work great but I'd love to also have the network places working too. I wonder if an update will fix this in the future? I'll cross my fingers :)
Thanks so much StephenB.
Just to add my 2 pennith ...
With Win7 and Win10, my NAS shows up ONLY under the "storage" category.
I do not believe that I have ever had it show up under the "computer" category.
I do however have a share from the NAS attached as the A: drive on my PC.
If you say which OS you are running, others MAY be able to give a more definitive answer.
Hi BaJohn,
Sorry I guess I should've mentioned that I am currently running Windows 10.
Thanks for any help you might be able to give.
sharpycl wrote:
Sorry I guess I should've mentioned that I am currently running Windows 10.
Some users here get microsoft "insider" builds, and they say that Microsoft is putting in some fixes for this problem.
BaJohn's reply illustrates my point though - He sees only storage, and I see both computer and storage... It is hit-or-miss for reasons that aren't that well understood (and the device categorization is done by Microsoft's stack). It also isn't persistent - the behavior will change w/o warning.
You can waste a lot of time on it - personally I think its best to use desktop shortcuts, or to manually add network locations into file explorer.
sharpycl wrote:.................... The mounted drives work great .....................
Just to satisy my curiosity, as you have a similar setup to myself.
Do your mounted LAN connected drives stay mounted during a restart?
I spent ages trying to fix this, and it turns out (apparently) that with a fast loading PC, it tries to access the drives BEFORE the Internet is setup.
This causes the drives to appear 'not connected' in file explorer, until you click on them. So for a while I used to start my PC and then click on the drives every single startup. I get so 'pi....f' that I wrote a batch file to run automatically that does the work for me and lets me know if there is a problem straightaway.
So, if your system drive is an SSD (then being super fast to load), do you have that problem?
Regards
BaJohn wrote:
Do your mounted LAN connected drives stay mounted during a restart?
So, if your system drive is an SSD (then being super fast to load), do you have that problem?
I do have an SSD system disk, and my win10 mapped drives stay mapped. (I've occassionally seen them dropped, but clicking on the them restores them).
With Win-7 there is a registry setting change that is sometimes needed - I'm not sure if it carries over to Win-10. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee844140(v=ws.10).aspx
StephenB wrote:
BaJohn wrote:Do your mounted LAN connected drives stay mounted during a restart?
So, if your system drive is an SSD (then being super fast to load), do you have that problem?
I do have an SSD system disk, and my win10 mapped drives stay mapped. (I've occassionally seen them dropped, but clicking on the them restores them).
With Win-7 there is a registry setting change that is sometimes needed - I'm not sure if it carries over to Win-10. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee844140(v=ws.10).aspx
Thanks for the prompt, but to no avail. I've just rechecked the 'EnableLinkedConnections' in the registry and it is set to '1'.
I did a lot of work last year on trying to fix my 'irritating' little problem and decided to 'find a way round it' as originally mentioned in the post.
I do not wish to revisit this problem and would need to open another post if I did, and it would not be this forum.
Sorry to be so negative, but I am resigned to it, and of course my problem MAY be that my LAN connection is not fast, whereas yours might be.
If that were your situation, then you would mostly never have the problem of access required to the LAN before it is fully setup (as you indicate).
(and no I couldn't work out how to delay requiring access to networked equipment on startup.)
Thanks for trying.
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