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ReadyNas not visible to computers on the network
Most of the time my ReadyNAS is not visible to other computers on the network. It is visible to RaidAr. I have seen something if I tried to allow the ethernet address to pass through the firewall on the computer that the certificates were invalid. Is there any way to access the contents on the NAS?
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Tom2B wrote:
Most of the time my ReadyNAS is not visible to other computers on the network. It is visible to RaidAr.
Can you log into the Frontview: https://nas-ip-address/admin Use the real NAS ip address of course.
Are you running Windows 10 or macOS catalina? If, not what are you running?
Tom2B wrote:
I have seen something if I tried to allow the ethernet address to pass through the firewall on the computer that the certificates were invalid.
The certificates are self-signed, and browsers will generate warnings when you access Frontview. You need to click through those warnings (clicking on "advanced" in Chrome).
Sorry, no certificates involved on these protocols required firewall settings.
What kind of computer and firewall are you talking of here? WIndows 10 does nicely configure the firewall when configured for a private network, allowing the NetBIOS host announcement (broadcast based), the NetBIOS name resolution (broadcast based, too), and the SMB 1.0 transport protocol to work - nothing to fine tune.
Raidar does make use of another, but also broadcast based discovery protocol.
I am running Windows 10 on the computers. Using Firefox I was able to login the the NAS after overriding the warnings not to procede. If I look at settings and devices the NAS shows up under Other devices but if I am looking at the list of network connections in the Windows Explorer the NAS isn't listed. I still can't access the files on the NAS.
Windows 10 - business as usual:
- SMB 1.0/CIFS Client feature enabled?
- Network Status - Private Network?
- No 3rd party Internet "Security" **** in place?
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