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Re: formatting my netgear rn104

carlocki
Luminary

Re: formatting my netgear rn104


 

Did you create credentials for the NAS in the Windows Credential Manager?



DONE

restart all mapped units do not work

 

Normally there would be two credentials - one for the NAS hostname, and one for the NAS IP address.  You'd include the username you want to use for the NAS.  You can also specify the password - if you leave that out, Windows will prompt you for it when you try to access a NAS share.

 

NAS SIDE (web access) all work

windows side all restart means lost mounted units

 

If you are wanting to map shares to drive letters, then it is not unusual for Windows to drop them when you reboot.  The simplest work-around is to create a batch script that remaps them, and run that as needed.

 

i thin i need this script

 


 

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carlocki
Luminary

Re: formatting my netgear rn104

a full nas reinstall will no helP?

 

windows has few days and it is pefeclty working with all registries new

Message 27 of 37
StephenB
Guru

Re: formatting my netgear rn104


@carlocki wrote:

a full nas reinstall will no helP?

 


I don't think there is anything wrong on the NAS.

 

If you like, you can send me a private message (PM) with a link to the full log zip file.  Download the full log zip from the logs page, then upload it to cloud storage (Dropbox, google drive, etc). Make sure the link in the PM is set so anyone with the link can download it. 

 

Send the PM using the envelope icon in the upper right of the forum page.

Message 28 of 37
carlocki
Luminary

Re: formatting my netgear rn104

on this code

net use * /d /y
net use t: \\192.168.1.4\NET-CAR /user:admin mypass

 

i cannot map t: or any other 

Message 29 of 37
StephenB
Guru

Re: formatting my netgear rn104


@carlocki wrote:

on this code

net use * /d /y
net use t: \\192.168.1.4\NET-CAR /user:admin mypass

 

i cannot map t: or any other 


I told you why above.  NET-CAR is not a share. It is the hostname of the NAS. So it cannot be mapped.

 

If you are trying to map the data volume, you need to use either

  • \\192.168.1.4\data  or
  • \\NET-CAR\data

 

Message 30 of 37
carlocki
Luminary

Re: formatting my netgear rn104

i used this code and I made a bat file

 

 

net use * /d /y
net use t: \\192.168.1.4\nasarc /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy
pause
net use x: \\192.168.1.4\musica /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy
pause
net use y: \\192.168.1.4\risorse /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy
pause
net use w: \\192.168.1.4\archivio /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy
pause

 

Message 31 of 37
StephenB
Guru

Re: formatting my netgear rn104


@carlocki wrote:

i used this code and I made a bat file

 

 

net use * /d /y
net use t: \\192.168.1.4\nasarc /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy
pause
net use x: \\192.168.1.4\musica /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy
pause
net use y: \\192.168.1.4\risorse /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy
pause
net use w: \\192.168.1.4\archivio /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy
pause

 


That should work.

Message 32 of 37
carlocki
Luminary

Re: formatting my netgear rn104

it works except i would like to access inside a folder for "fumetti" but it is ok

 

can you explain why I need this code on a perfectly working windwos? any limitation of my net card?

Message 33 of 37
StephenB
Guru

Re: formatting my netgear rn104


@carlocki wrote:

 

can you explain why I need this code on a perfectly working windwos? any limitation of my net card?


Normally mapped drives are not persistent, so you need to map them again when you reboot (or log out/log in).

 

There is a switch (/persistent:Yes) that you could add to your script.  For instance

net use t: \\192.168.1.4\nasarc /persistent:yes /user:xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy

Even with this switch, a mapped drive sometimes won't mount.  But it would mount most of the time.

 

But there are alternatives to mapping shares to drive letters that you might want to google.

  • You can create desktop shortcuts for each share from file explorer, that would navigate to the share when you click on them. 
  • You can pin network shares to  "quick access"
  • Windows 11 lets you pin network shares to start  - not sure if Windows 10 has that feature or not.

@carlocki wrote:

it works except i would like to access inside a folder for "fumetti"



These other methods would let you access subfolders within shares directly, so they would let you do this.

Message 34 of 37
Sandshark
Sensei

Re: formatting my netgear rn104

Mapped drives are the easiest way for a more novice user to access the NAS.  They also help when a program isn't set up to access a network share directly.

 

As @StephenB said, this isn't necessary to access the shares, there are other ways.  But since you never did state how you were attempting to access them, we could not help you figure out what you were doing wrong or simply not doing.

 

If you were expecting the shares to simply show up, as if they were on a USB drive attached to the computer, then you really didn't do your homework before purchasing a NAS to understand what you were buying.  A little Googling of network access from Windows might be in order.

Message 35 of 37
StephenB
Guru

Re: formatting my netgear rn104


@Sandshark wrote:

 

If you were expecting the shares to simply show up, as if they were on a USB drive attached to the computer, then you really didn't do your homework before purchasing a NAS to understand what you were buying. 


FWIW, @carlocki has had the RN104 since 2013.  So I think the goal was just getting everything working as it did before he spun up Win10 on this PC.

 

 

Message 36 of 37
carlocki
Luminary

Re: formatting my netgear rn104


@Sandshark wrote:

Mapped drives are the easiest way for a more novice user to access the NAS.  They also help when a program isn't set up to access a network share directly.

 

As @StephenB said, this isn't necessary to access the shares, there are other ways.  But since you never did state how you were attempting to access them, we could not help you figure out what you were doing wrong or simply not doing.

 

If you were expecting the shares to simply show up, as if they were on a USB drive attached to the computer, then you really didn't do your homework before purchasing a NAS to understand what you were buying.  A little Googling of network access from Windows might be in order.


I must say thanks to Stephen. I Learnt a lot and everything is working great now.

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