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Ready NAS Pro 6 no longer shows up as a networked devise in windows explorer
I am running a Ready NAS Pro 6 as a home server for music, videos etc and its been working fine for a number of years. Yesterday I made the mistake of taking advantage of the free upgrade on one of m...
What firmware are you running?
Does \\nasipaddress\share name (in windows explorer) work?
I'm having no problems access my pro-6 from Windows 10 (including mapping drive letters).
FWIW, seeing the NAS in the left pane of windows explorer has been hit-or-miss for years (and is a discovery problem, not a permissions problem). It's hard to tell if windows is at fault or the NAS. There are several workarounds, but if you can't access shares directly via \\nas\share then you have other issues.
Hi Stephen
Firmware is 4.2.24. It wont let me update to 4.2.27.
\\nasipaddress\share name (in windows explorer) does not work? Thats when I get these error messages.
If I type the NAS IP address into my web browser I access the NAS shared folders and the videos, songs, pictures within the folders but this doesnt give me access to the users personal folders (and is not ideal for copying files between folders)
Thats interesting, and might be related. How does it fail? Do you happen to have ssh enabled? What add-ons are installed.
chewy99 wrote:
Hi Stephen
Firmware is 4.2.24. It wont let me update to 4.2.27.
chewy99 wrote:
\\nasipaddress\share name (in windows explorer) does not work? Thats when I get these error messages.
From the OP I was gathering that the NAS wasn't showing up in the left pane - which is quite different from \\nasip\sharename failing. Do \\nasname\share and \\nasipaddr\share both fail the same way?The NAS doesnt show up in windows explorer in the left pane and if I try and type in \\NASIP\share or \\nasname\share into explorer or click on browse in raidar I get the same message "windows cannot access \\NASname/share (or \\nasip\share). Check the spelling of the name otherwise there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems click diagnose. Error code 0x80004005 unspecified error" . When I run the diagnostic it says "the devise or resorce is not set up to accept connections on port "the file and printer sharing (SMB)".
I just tried the remote update option on frontview which worked and its now showing firmware 4.2.27. However when I click on the admin icon the frontview page that loads up is completely blank now and I cant do anything???
I have the PLEX add on installed (had it for several years).
Scratch that. Frontview came back after turning the computer on and off! Still can't access the NAS from windows explorer however. I'm at a loss.
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