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Win Explorer not seeing all NAS drives
I have 5 ReadyNas drives on my home network. All are running 6.10.10 using Win Explorer, both Win 10 and Win 11, only show 4 of my 5 drives. All have static IPs, and all of the normal issues, SMB ...
However explorer does not see the drive unless I specifically address it by name.
Can you clarify this?
I am thinking that you can access all the drives, and that your problem is that one of the NAS is not showing up in the "Computer" section of Explorer's Network list.
Is that the case?
Your thinking is correct. If I put missing NAS name in the address line in explorer I can access it. Also if I map a drive to the missing NAS I can access with explorer using the mapped link.
I seem to remember that a year ago or more I found a registry edit that seemed to increase the number of drives showing, but I cannot find any current reference to it.
If I put missing NAS name in the address line in explorer I can access it. Also if I map a drive to the missing NAS I can access with explorer using the mapped link.
This is not a new Windows issue (and not limited to NAS discovery). Unfortunately I don't have a good solution. I'm seeing a couple of articles describing potential "fixes", but none seem relevant to ReadyNAS. For instance,
- https://www.wintips.org/fix-windows-11-24h2-does-not-show-all-network-computers/
If you think that the number of NAS matters, you can test that idea by disconnecting one of the NAS from your network, and see if the missing NAS then shows up.
A workaround is to create network locations for each NAS after selecting "This PC" in the left pane. The network location needs to include a share, so to access everything you would need to include the data volume.
You can similarly create desktop shortcuts that open to the NAS - one advantage of the shortcut workaround is that you don't need to specify a share in the shortcut.
Personally I just enter \\NASname into explorer (even though my NAS does show up in my network list). My wife likes to use the desktop shortcuts, so I've put them on the PCs she uses.
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