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mbehm
May 14, 2018Aspirant
RND4000 (ReadyNAS NV+ no longer visible from Network wirelessly after 5 years - frontend works fine
seemingly out of the blue both my windows7 and windows10 laptops can no longer access my readyNas VN+. I've tried rebooting laptops... NAS, and modem... turned off everything in the network and back...
- May 23, 2018
It would be a good time to make a backup.
mbehm
May 15, 2018Aspirant
Ok.. I checked the SMB and it was not active... I activated and restarted... same symptoms... forgot to mention that I can see other computers on the network... only the NAS is not visible
StephenB
May 15, 2018Guru - Experienced User
There's Windows Discovery (seeing the NAS in the network list), and actual SMB access (reading/writing the files). They are very different things.
You can easily work around discovery problems, but you cannot work around access problems. So let's get access working first.
So concentrate on entering \\nas-ip-address into windows explorer, and making sure you can access the files.
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