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Title: DNS-320 is detected as network device, but PC cannot connect
Post by: kiskertlugas on July 16, 2014, 04:42:28 AM

We use DNS-320 in our small business.

All PC's are Win7 (and one XP).
They can detect the NAS and access it as network drive.

But my laptop with Win7 sees the devie in My computer/ Network, and wont access it, giving an error that "Windows cannot establish connection with the following: Dlink...".
Going on FTP (total commander), it works.

My firewall is off, I dont use antivirus, PC is connected through ethernet cable. Tried to switch to static IP, no result (other PC's are dynamic IP too).

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks.

Title: Re: DNS-320 is detected as network device, but PC cannot connect
Post by: maol on July 16, 2014, 05:19:05 AM

Did you create the separate accounts and make the privileges? Did you create the share available via CIFS? The static IP for NAS is necessary, for the PC's doesn't matter.

Title: Re: DNS-320 is detected as network device, but PC cannot connect
Post by: ivan on July 16, 2014, 05:44:52 AM

Since your other computers can access the NAS, it looks as if the network settings on your laptop are not correct.

Check such things as 'workgroup' against 'homegroup' (that win 7 seems to use when creating a network connection). 

Also check with something like SoftPerfect Netscan (installed on your laptop).

It should show the NAS as DLINK-xxxxxx (with xxxxxx being whatever the default is for your NAS) with a + in a square beside it.  If you click on that + it should show Volume_1 and lp, If you don't get the + it indicates that the laptop network settings are wrong.

Title: Re: DNS-320 is detected as network device, but PC cannot connect
Post by: kiskertlugas on July 17, 2014, 01:03:55 AM

Thanks ivan,

Something is weird here.

I quit my homegroup, and set my network type to home-network type with name workgroup (as the NAS describes)

This network scanner sees the NAS too with all the shared folders. (icon i folder with a red ! in it, dont know what it means)

Weird thing is that while this scanner runs, it sees the folders, and I can reach them through Windows too.
But as soon as I exit this scanner, the server will produce the same "cannot establich connection" problem in windows.

Does this little software open something up in the network connection?
Kind of weird...

Title: Re: DNS-320 is detected as network device, but PC cannot connect
Post by: ivan on July 17, 2014, 03:27:59 AM

As far as I know the red ! means that that folder is not accessible from the computer under normal conditions.

Netscan is usually fairly aggressive in searching the network and does bypass many of the restrictions placed on network access by the windows OS.

It would help if you had a good look at the network and security settings of a working computer and compared them with your laptop settings.

As I said before I can't help much more than that because we don't use windows here (we do have a lone copy of XP running in a VM to allow us to check things for clients and I suppose we will have to eventually upgrade that to 7 since most are doing that).

I can add that we have seen more problems getting win 7 to correctly connect to a network than we ever did with XP.