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