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Win 10 suddenly can't connect ReadyNas DUO
Hi all, After a few Microsoft updates to Windows 10, I am no longer able to access my ReadyNas Duo using either a UNC path or mapped drives. The device shows under "network" but cannot be accessed. ...
PeterD2 wrote:
Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem. Added the static IP to the hosts file as directed, verified it's there after saving, but no go. If I enter "ping nas" at the command line it resolves to 192.168.1.9 and pings out fine.
What happens when you enter \\NAS in the windows explorer line?
Maybe also open CMD and enter
net use * /delete /y
net use t: \\NAS\C /user:admin nas-admin-password
and tell us what happens there too?
Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem. Added the static IP to the hosts file as directed, verified it's there after saving, but no go. If I enter "ping nas" at the command line it resolves to 192.168.1.9 and pings out fine.
I can only enter the shares by putting in \\192.168.1.9 into an Explorer window. All my backups are failing now too. I'm not really looking for a workaround, I need to actually fix the problem. It works from my laptop that's on an earlier version of Windows, but from the second PC in the house that's also on Win10 version 19033 (Nov update), it's suffering the same fate.
If you put the NAS address into Hosts and re-booted, and the NAS name is still not resolved, then you made an error somehow. One possibility is that you followed the examples exactly. But they start with #, which comments them out. Your entries should not. Typos are, of course, another possibility.
No, it was entered correctly. There is somethng actively preventing the new W10 iteration from accessing the old Duo. The PCs (both of them with 19033) were restarted to no effect. Here are the first few lines of my hosts file:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost192.168.1.9 NAS
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