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ReadyNas 428 copying files to a share from windows 10
this may have been asked before but from windows 10 i can copy files to a folder in a share but i cant copy files or folders to the root of a share. This issue is when using file browser in windows,...
I just tried my sons notebook and he does not have this issue. So at this time it appears to be a qwerk with my office PC. Tomorrow I will but my neighbours PC on the network to see if it has the issue.
I dont know if this is related and i don't know if i did this to my current PC but there was a registry hack some time ago so that you could view shares on readynas 4.2.
George_N wrote:
there was a registry hack some time ago so that you could view shares on readynas 4.2.
The issue there was likely enabling SMB 1/CIFS - which is not a problem with the 428.
There might be security policies on the work PC that are not allowing access to network shares. So you might want to check with your company's iT dept.
You might also try this test:
Open CMD (which gives you a text box interface on the PC).
Then enter this:
net use * /del /y net use z: \\nas-ip-address\data /user:admin nas-admin-passwordusing the real NAS IP address and NAS admin password of course. If you use FlexRaid, you'll also need to substitute your actual volume name for "data".
This should mount the full NAS data volume as drive letter Z on the PC.
I have now tried 3 machines running windows 10 pro and all the same. the only machine that works "normally" or as i would expect is my sons notebook which has the latest windows on it.
George_N wrote:
I have now tried 3 machines running windows 10 pro and all the same. the only machine that works "normally" or as i would expect is my sons notebook which has the latest windows on it.
What happens if you try the test I posted above???
Is the network set to "private" on the PCs that don't allow access?
Are you accessing the NAS by double-clicking on it in "Network" in Windows explorer? That does sometimes run into issues (and not just on ReadyNAS) and I've never found the root cause. I, too, have some Windows computers that have the problem and some that do not. One that previously didn't have it just started to after a Windows update. There are a couple ways to work around it. Mapping the NAS or individual shares using the NAS IP address, not it's name, as StephenB suggested, is one. Typing in the IP address preceded by \\ in a Windows Explorer address bar is another, and adding the NAS IP address and name to the computer's hosts file is the best long-term "solution" (really a work-around). You can Google how to do that.
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