• February 25, 2025, 03:45:49 AM
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

This Forum Beta is ONLY for registered owners of D-Link products in the USA for which we have created boards at this time.

Author Topic: Map both drives at once  (Read 4042 times)

Luke Duke

  • Guest
Map both drives at once
« on: June 02, 2011, 06:56:51 AM »
I have installed a second 2Tb drive in my NAS DNS323 Dlink box. Non raid settings. Now it seems I can only map one drive at a time. Assume that the problem is only one address.  Would really like to see both separate drives in Windows. Does anyone know how to do this.  Using Win 7 64 bit.  Belkin N1 vision.  DNS323 with 2 Tb drives. O yes.  Discovered I had to turn on DNS323 first, N1 Vision router  second and PC last or I could not map any drive.
Logged

fordem

  • Level 10 Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2168
Re: Map both drives at once
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2011, 08:25:41 AM »
You can map both drives at the same time - in fact you can map multiple folders on each drive to multiple drive letters - as many folders as you have unused "drive letters" for.

This is purely a Windows function - in Windows 7 ...

1 - open libraries
2 - right click "Network"
3 - select "Map network drive" from the resulting menu
4 - select an unused drive letter
5 - click Browse
6 - navigate to the DNS-323 and expand it
7 - select the volume (Volume_1 or Volume_2)
8 - you can either click OK at this point which will map the volume or you can navigate down to a folder.

It's pretty much the same in any version of Windows, except that Microsoft has changed the names of certain things - libraries was once called explorer, network was once my network places.
Logged
RAID1 is for disk redundancy - NOT data backup - don't confuse the two.

pearljam45

  • Level 2 Member
  • **
  • Posts: 39
Re: Map both drives at once
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2011, 09:22:13 AM »
I ran into this problem when I added a second drive as well.

I don't really have a solution other than that I forgot to run the Dlink easy search utility as administrator the second time around.

Run as admin in Win7 and it mapped no problem.

PJ
Logged

fordem

  • Level 10 Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2168
Re: Map both drives at once
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2011, 01:59:27 PM »
The ESU is not required to map drives, it's provided by DLink to make the task of locating & configuring the DNS-323 easier.
Logged
RAID1 is for disk redundancy - NOT data backup - don't confuse the two.

dosborne

  • Level 5 Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 598
Re: Map both drives at once
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2011, 04:55:40 PM »
I've never bothered with the DLink cd and/or ESU personally.

Mapping multiple drives is simple enough in WinXP. I have numerous shares and have each mounted to a different drive letter for easy management.
Logged
3 x DNS-323 with 2 x 2TB WD Drives each for a total of 12 TB Storage and Backup. Running DLink Firmware v1.08 and Fonz Fun Plug (FFP) v0.5 for improved software support.

ivan

  • Level 8 Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1480
Re: Map both drives at once
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2011, 04:16:40 AM »
Running OS/2 here make the CD only useful for the reading the manual.

Like dosborne, I have no problems mounting shares to a drive letter - the shares are spread over three NAS.
Logged