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Wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to fix a new issue my NAS drive has thrown up. My NAS is used only for storage of files, most of them being media files in various formats (DVD, avi, MPEG etc). We basically have this instead of a massive DVD shelving unit! The media is streamed...

Hi all, As the title states, I'm planning to build my own renderfarm with a termserver and wake on lan. This looked like the right place to ask if what I want is possible and if so, what it would take: This is the ideal situation I would like: I'd like my network to include my workstation...

My NAS used to show up as a computer under "Network -> Computer", i'm not sure why but it no longer shows up there. I do see the NAS under "Network -> Storage Devices" but clicking this only brings me to the admin page of the NAS and does not allow me to browse the NAS. Typing in either the IP...

Running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit on a Tosh laptop. Everything fine until a few days ago and NOTHING changed by me (new installs, configs, etc). My NAS drive always appeared as 'DISKSTATION' under 'Network' in Windows Explorer. Then it just disappeared. I have since noticed the following: - No...

This was working just fine, I could see and access NAS via WE on all computers. Something changed Now............in WE on desktop - open NETWORK - can see laptop & desktop computers on network it also shows DT & NAS Media Devices BUT not NAS as computer (storage drive). I can access everything...

Recently purchased a Seagate GoFlex Home NAS drive and having troubles getting my Win7 laptop to see it on the network. Here is a basic rundown of what works and what doesn't: I can ping the IP address from the Laptop The NAS drive appears in the network map but not in the Network heading in...

Hi I have just moved all my photos to my NAS and I want to set read-only on them as my whole family are accessing them. I though this would be simply the case of clicking the read-only attribute for the folder but I can still delete the files.What should I be doing? thanks,Shumit

Hi All I bought an Link Removed a few days ago and have been setting it up yesterday and today. I have it working perfectly on an old laptop which I was testing with however I am unable to get it working on what is our main laptop for travelling. The NAS itself is fine but it seems to be a...

I can’t get anything faster than 5Mbs transfers over my network. This is what I have connected. I’m using a Dlink DIR-655 Router, set to connect at 1Gbps, Western Digital NAS drive, it says it’s connected at 1Gbps, and my laptop is set to connect at 1Gbps also. My laptop has a Realtek NIC, with...

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 posted on several forums, followed 100s of 'tips', but nothing works! Briefly: Technisat media player can share files on Vista, Android Samba, linux-based NAS without user verification but fails to access Win7 shares with a user/password login failure (although the share is available...

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...