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richtea
Mar 03, 2019Tutor
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, ...
- Mar 04, 2019If 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
Mar 04, 2019Tutor
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?
BBB73
Mar 05, 2019Apprentice
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.