NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Windows XP Cannot See "Home" Share?
It was seeing it for awhile, then I re-booted the XP box and cannot see the Home share. Ditto a Windows 7 laptop. OTOH, the "Home" share is visible on my Android smart phone. Something with W...
PeteCress wrote:
I'm starting to think Windows is somehow wacked:
For anybody having a similar problem: I went through several re-iterations of
Net Use * /Deleteand, finally, was able to get a connection.
Dunno what was happening or why, but the proximate cause seems to have been one or more existing connections to the NAS box that did not get removed by the first Net Use * /delete... or even the second one...
But once all existing connections were finally deleted, things went as expected.
The most confusing part was Windows' looping on the ID/PW dialog when I was trying to map a drive to the NAS box from the Windows UI. It didn't throw any errors like "Hey dummy, you already have a connection and we don't play dat....". Instead it just quietly re-issued the ID/PW dialog as if an incorrect ID or PW were being supplied.
NETGEAR Academy
Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!
