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ReadyNAS Ultra II visible but not usable from Win7
Hi, have a weird problem with my NAS. I can ping it within my network, I can surf to it within my network but I can't use it as a storage. (My network = 192.168.3.xxx). I could use it as storage but ...
swejens wrote:
"Can't reach //NAS2TB/private" and "Network path not found, error code 0x80070035" (This is not the exact wording since I'm running Swedish Win7).
Either you mistyped this in the forum, or you are using the wrong slash direction with windows (it should be \\NAS2TB\private)
What happens if you run CMD from windows and enter
net use * /delete net use t: \\192.168.3.10\C /user:admin nas-admin-password
using the real admin password of course.
The first command terminates any open SMB sessions (so it will dismount any other network drives you have mapped).
The second command attempts to mount the full NAS data volume as drive letter t. Note it is using the NAS admin credentials to do that.
Be careful on the typing (particularly the two different slash directions and the spaces). Also, please do use the NAS IP address for this test (not it's hostname).
swejens wrote:
Have static IP on the NAS. Would there be a problem to have static IP on the NAS and a reservation in the router? (Yes, the router has that option and yes, I would use the same adress.)
There's no benefit, since the NAS will never ask the router for an address.
The advantages of address reservation are
- all your addresses are managed in one place, so there won't be any accidental duplicates.
- when you change routers to one with a different address range you won't lose connectivity (though you will need to redo the addresses).
The second issue pops up here pretty frequently. There are ways to fix a broken IP configuration in the NAS, but address reservation prevents the problem.
Ok, I see your point and I would generally agree. However, at my home routers are changed much more often than the NAS so for me I have fixed IPs on all things that are not computers. DHCP leases adresses in the range and all fixed in another.
Thanks again for all advice and help!
I might come back to this since I'm grappling with another problem but due to lightning (bad weather) my stuff keeps turning off since the power comes and goes so I can't really make consistent tests at the moment.
swejens wrote:
Ok, I see your point and I would generally agree. However, at my home routers are changed much more often than the NAS so for me I have fixed IPs on all things that are not computers. DHCP leases adresses in the range and all fixed in another.
It helps if you understand how subnets work and how to configure them in your router of course.
Personally I go the other way - reserving addresses for everything that stays on my network. Though I agree my approach means it takes a while to configure a new router. I wish Netgear routers supported a CSV input format for address reservation (and maybe port forwarding).
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