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Hi all, I have a problem with my ZyXEL NAS221 network drive. I have had it running on the network for about 6 months at the location M:\location\share without a problem. At the weekend I took it to a family members house, as it has a static IP set it was easy to find on their network. Since...

Hi, I currently have 2 PCs and 1 NAS box connected by Ethernet cables to my wired Netgear Router/Modem which is connected in the standard fashion to my Telephone Junction Box via an ADSL Filter. The Telephone junction box is located in a different room to the PCs and necessitates a run of cable...

I use a Goflex 2Tb external drive for daily backup. Unlike it's eSATA predecessors it doesn't have a power switch and Win 7 doesn't cut USB power upon safe removal. There is no point in it being on all day, but to cut the power properly I have to unplug it from the back of the PC and that's a...

We have a pair of newly-purchased Windows 7 laptops: - Samsung Q330 - Acer Aspire 5742 Both run Windows 7 Premium, and both suffer from painfully slow access to shares on a Netgear NV+ NAS. For example, opening a photo of 114kb size takes approximately 30 seconds. Populating medium-sized...

Hey there guys, I'm running a 2003 and 2008 server the 2003 is the primary DC. Most of our PC's are XP and were testing 2 windows 7 machines. The desktops and some shared drives were stored on a nas box but it was unstable so I shifted the desktops and some public shares to a server on one...

I have an issue accessing the files within NAS share from cmd prompt on Windows 7 professional. Details: I have mapped the X: to a shared NAS folder. I could access the folder and see the files through windows Explorer, but when I go to "cmd" prompt and "cd X:" and type in the command dir it...

Good day mighty experts, I do have a question regarding the way Windows 7 handles network shares. I have a few NAS servers on my network (mapped to local drives on my pc), some of which using power saving techniques. As a result, they stop their hard drives after a few minutes idle time. This...

I have 4 computers and a QNAP TS-209 NAS in a WorkGroup environment. Two of the Windows 7 computers see everything - the 3 Windows 7 computers,the Windows XP computer, the TS-209 and the OKI C5100N printer. One of the Windows 7 computers only sees other Windows 7 computers (just as if it were in...

A user uses their My Documents on a NAS, so have a mapped drive ie: S: I attempted to change Start - Documents - properties to s:\My documents, but Win 7 reported "unable to add because not indexed" I later found Users\User\My Documents - properties - location to s:\My documents, however...

A User stores their "My documents" on a NAS unit I have a mapped a drive through to My Documents ok however after each reboot the Mapped Drive is not connected & the Username & password must be entered in the connection window, a connection is then established ok I have checked "Save...

I have recently installed a NAS storage device to my network, I am try to "map network drive but cannot get further than the username and password screen. Ican see the drive when I browse to install however I am prompted to put my username and password in when I click to add. It is asking...

As the title states I am looking for a cheap (£100!) 1TB NAS for use with Windows 7. I would like it work first time and not have to spend hours tinkering with the insides of the computer. Is this possible?

I have a NAS (Western Digital MyBook World Edition) and recently I've upgraded my OS to Windows 7 64 bit (from 32-bit Vista) and I'm experiencing strange problems with NAS presently. When I start it up while Windows is working the system discovers it and allows access, but when I shut the...

Hi, I have a Dell Core2Duo laptop with Vista Home Premium 64 with SP2. It's connected to my network wirelessly however I've tried it wired too but that made no difference. On the network are a number of devices; 2 windows 7 Home Premium 64 machines and a brand new netgear ReadyNas Duo, all...

First, this is a small home network. No PC on the network has ever been assigned a password. I am trying to install a NAS box, and after entering the default username/password for the NAS box, Windows Security pops up with a "Enter Network Password" box. What "Network Password" is Windows...

Hi, everyone, I am having some issues with Win7 Starter on my ASUS EEE PC being able to carry out network discovery on my home network. When I go to Network, the status bar across the top fills veeeerrrry slowly. Also,the computer cannot readily identify other computers on my home network...

Hello! I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I've been seeing very slow file operations since making this PC my main computer earlier this week. My system specs are listed below my signature. In addition to the specific example below, the problem appeares copying image files from a CF Card...

Hi, I have a NAS (synology) and windows 7 computers. I can acces in share folder in my Filestation, all is fine. The BIG problem is : i can not execute .bat file on this share folder. It is a big problem. If i create a share folder on a Windows 7, .bat files work. On the Filestation : doesn't...

I have an issue I cannot resolve. I just installed Windows 7 on one of our computers and everything went great. I can connect to all my network drives and my NAS but when I try and run an application file I get an error “The parameter is incorrect.” I can copy this folder to my local drive or my...

Guys, I'm currently having an issue with my Win7 64 bit Pro computer. Transfers to other computers on my network is slow and sometimes the icon in the taskbar shows that it's disconnecting and reconnecting. I've also noticed that uploads to the internet are either slow or just never...