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Cannot access NAS unless I keep changing NAS Host name
READYNAS NV+ v2 with 4 3TB WD Red RAIDiator 5.3 RAIDar 4.3.4 Setup as Flex Raid JBOD with 4 volumes c,d,e,f Windows XP and Windows7 I found recently that sometimes I would switch the NAS on, tr...
I have 3 computers on this network (2*Win7 and XP), 1 Win7 machine I have never mapped any drives to the NAS and I still have the same access problem to the NAS. It doesn't matter how many times I try to access it I still get errors as described above. On the machine with the mapped drives, it doesn't matter how many times I click on the mapped drives it refuses to connect as described above.
I've tried resetting my windows password so its the same as the NAS password and it made no difference. (Maybe I should make the usernames the same also?) I needed to change the NAS name before I could access the NAS.
Further to this, I reinstalled a fresh copy of Win7 on 1 of the machines and after I changed the name of the NAS like I usually have to do in order to access it, when I typed \\NAS all I got were the 2 default shares, "media" and "backup"?? WTF!!! where were my volumes c,d,e and f?
The volumes didn't show up, I could see them on dashboard. On the other machine at the same time I could see media, backup and volumes c,d,e and f. I struggled for about 5 hours trying to work out why the volumes were visible on one machine but not the newly built machine. The computers were all in the same workgroup.
This has been one of the most incredibly frustrating introduction to a new piece of hardware I have every had. There are numerous other things which I have written about on other threads such as after a factory reset to Flex-aid JBOD, 1 of the default shares changed by itself from \\NAS\media to \e\ without me doing a thing...anyway thats another story.
I found that the newly built computer displayed only the default shares media and backup, after hours of trying different things I found if I clicked on media I got a password prompt which I never got when I simply entered \\NAS , when I entered the username and password of the NAS and went back the volumes suddenly appeared....How dumb!! Why didn't it give me a prompt when I just typed \\NAS why did I have to click one of the default share buttons in order to get the password prompt to popup?
Anyway I'm still at a loss as to why I need to change the NAS network name each time I start the NAS before I can access from any of the 3 computers I have connected.....any more things I can try? Thanks for your responses so far.
I've tried resetting my windows password so its the same as the NAS password and it made no difference. (Maybe I should make the usernames the same also?) I needed to change the NAS name before I could access the NAS.
Further to this, I reinstalled a fresh copy of Win7 on 1 of the machines and after I changed the name of the NAS like I usually have to do in order to access it, when I typed \\NAS all I got were the 2 default shares, "media" and "backup"?? WTF!!! where were my volumes c,d,e and f?
The volumes didn't show up, I could see them on dashboard. On the other machine at the same time I could see media, backup and volumes c,d,e and f. I struggled for about 5 hours trying to work out why the volumes were visible on one machine but not the newly built machine. The computers were all in the same workgroup.
This has been one of the most incredibly frustrating introduction to a new piece of hardware I have every had. There are numerous other things which I have written about on other threads such as after a factory reset to Flex-aid JBOD, 1 of the default shares changed by itself from \\NAS\media to \e\ without me doing a thing...anyway thats another story.
I found that the newly built computer displayed only the default shares media and backup, after hours of trying different things I found if I clicked on media I got a password prompt which I never got when I simply entered \\NAS , when I entered the username and password of the NAS and went back the volumes suddenly appeared....How dumb!! Why didn't it give me a prompt when I just typed \\NAS why did I have to click one of the default share buttons in order to get the password prompt to popup?
Anyway I'm still at a loss as to why I need to change the NAS network name each time I start the NAS before I can access from any of the 3 computers I have connected.....any more things I can try? Thanks for your responses so far.
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