Unable to connect to NAS on home Lan Win7 HP Retail
Hello All, I have searched the forum and found older posts of issues not connecting to NAS. My issue is a tad different. I have two PC's, one Desktop Wired, and one Laptop Wireless, Both are running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Retail Upgrade. Connected to a Gigabit Buffalo Wireless N router. I just recently purchased a Verbatim NAS 1tb Gigabit The Desktop is able to see EVERYTHING on my network, (The Verbatim Nas, and the USB attached NAS via the Buffalo Router, xbox360, Wii, Blueray player *when its on*, and the Wired Laser Printer), also the Desktop is using a network bridge to connect to the switch as it has two ethernet ports. The laptop on the other hand can only see the Desktop, itself, and the media sharing *devices* from the desktop as media sharing is turned on. Both machines are part of a homegroup. i have tried pulling both out of the homegroup. the laptop doesn't see the NAS as an actual "Device" via the network screen, i can however access it via \\local_ip and also map to a shared folder. And the other odd part of this is i cannot access any devices on the lan via \\hostname, i can only access via \\ ip address, and even that is flaky at times. Please advise...~VenomXII
April 21st, 2010 7:42am

bump, anyone have any ideas?~VenomXII
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April 22nd, 2010 7:56pm

Hi, Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following: 1. On the problematic Windows 7 computer, please go to “Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings” and ensure that the following items are turned ON: Network Discovery File and printer sharing 2. Run the following command in an elevated command prompt to disable Windows Firewall and check the issue: Netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off Note: This is just for test; please turn it back on with the command “Netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state on”. 3. Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP and see how it works: 1) Go to “Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections”. 2) Right-Click on the connection and choose Properties. 3) Click “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Version 4” in the list. 4) Click Properties, and then click Advanced. 5) On the Advanced TCP/IP settings windows, go to “WINS” tab. 6) Under NetBIOS setting, click “Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP”, and then click OK. 4. Boot the system to clean boot environment to check the issue: How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7 Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT
April 23rd, 2010 10:44am

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