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Unable to access network shares since installing Orbi
I replaced my ASUS RT-AC87U with an Orbi RBR50 a few weeks ago. Since then, I have been unable to access any network shares on my Synology NAS. Whenever I try to connect (either SMB or AFP from Mac, ...
- If you can't connect to the share using the IP address then clearly the problem is not dns.
Sounds like a firewall is blocking traffic to the smb share, do you have the firewall enabled on the nas?
richtea wrote:
Hi BBB73, yes I have tried that, but no luck, the DNS names don't resolve. Running scutil --dns on the Mac indicates that it has configured itself (10.0.0.1) as the DNS resolver.
Hi richtea,
on my Apple devices I also see the Orbi IP as DNS server but in my situation I can validate that the synology DNS is used for name resolution.
BBB73 how do you validate that the Synology DNS is used? Is there a diagnostic command I could try, or do you just know it’s working it because of successful name resolution?
richtea wrote:
BBB73 how do you validate that the Synology DNS is used? Is there a diagnostic command I could try, or do you just know it’s working it because of successful name resolution?
Hi richtea , I have a registered domain that links to my external IP address but is in my Synology DNS linked to an internal IP. If I ping the domain name while on my network and it returns the internal IP, I know it is going via the Synology DNS.