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Samba doesn't work when accessing by name after upgrade to 6.10
As of the upgrade from 6.9.9, to 6.10, all my backup jobs started failing. I noticed that I could no longer access the NAS by name. I can ping it fine by name. If I go into Windows explorer, the NAS ...
I didn't search the forum, but I did search with Google and nothing came up from this forum. Could you link the other thread please? Anyway that is not a fix. I hope netgear are working on a patch as a priority.
Sorry, I don't keep links in my back pocket. There are several, though sometimes hard to pick out from the ones for older NASes where the problem is SMB1. But all you will find is others suffering from the same issue with absolutely no useful advice to truly overcome it, just work-arounds like I have provided.
It doesn't appear to be a ReadyNAS unique issue, as I see similar posts regarding other Linux devices in the Microsoft forums (likelwise, with no real resolution). Since this has been an issue for months, it certainly doesn't look like Netgear is trying to do anything about it. Of course, it also doesn't affect everyone, for some reason.
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