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[thecreator]

Hi All,

Firmware 1.08.

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3.

Router is the DIR-655.

I can map the two Hard Drives in the DNS-323 just fine to the operating system.
However, on the reboot after mapping the drives, My Computer shows that the Hard Drives are disconnected.

Is this an operating system problem or a Firmware 1.08 problem?

Is this occurring on both Computers. One is Wired and One is Wireless.

Thanks in advance!

[chriso]

If you try to access the mapped drive does it come up or give you an error?
XP concept off "disconnected" some times just means "I haven't seen any activity from it in a while".

If you can access it with no errors then there is nothing wrong.

[thecreator]

If you try to access the mapped drive does it come up or give you an error?
XP concept off "disconnected" some times just means "I haven't seen any activity from it in a while".

If you can access it with no errors then there is nothing wrong.

Hi chriso,

This is trying to access the Hard Drives right after booting up the computer.

I found another post about this situation. Not to use D-Link Utility but to use Windows. I used Windows, where I furnished the Login and Password to the DNS-323 Unit.

When I click on a Disconnected Drive, a Window pops up asking for the User ID and Password. This is the error message in the Window: Incorrect password or unknown username for: \\Dlink-6912be\Volume_1.

It is not remembering the User ID and password I assigned for the Unit.

[scaramanga]

When you mapped the drives, you checked the "reconnect on login" right?
After restart, you see the the drive mappings in windows explorer but you can't access them.

And if you disconnect/reconnect them then everything starts working again (if you haven't tried that, please do and let us know if it worked).

If so, I had a similar problem. I believe it's got to do with how the DNS-323 and your PC are configured to be the master browser. You can find a discussion about it here: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=14522.0

[thecreator]

When you mapped the drives, you checked the "reconnect on login" right?
After restart, you see the the drive mappings in windows explorer but you can't access them.

And if you disconnect/reconnect them then everything starts working again (if you haven't tried that, please do and let us know if it worked).

If so, I had a similar problem. I believe it's got to do with how the DNS-323 and your PC are configured to be the master browser. You can find a discussion about it here: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=14522.0

Hi scaramanga,

Thanks for the reply.

It is checked to reconnect at logon.

I don't see Master Browser in Services, I see Computer Browser in Services which is set to Automatic.

I think the problem is that the User ID and Password aren't being stored by Windows, to reconnect at logon. Once I inserted the User ID and Password for each Hard Drive (Same User ID and Password for each.), the Hard Drives were reconnected to the operating system, without having to disconnect them.

[rickg7]

Hi -

I setup a client on a DNS-323 with firmward v1.05 a while ago and had this same issue you are describing.  My experience was that Windows does not maintain user/password information for network resources.

I see you already check the "reconnect on login" for each mapped drive. 

The way I got around it was to create a user on the NAS with a matching username and password as the Windows log-on user-name/password (both are case sensititive, so make username matches exactly) and make it so that user has the proper permissions (read/write) for each folder share you create on the NAS.

When connecting to a mapped network share, Windows attempts to provide the currently logged-on username/password to the server (the NAS) and when that fails, it prompts for a user/password.  I believe MS calls this Pass-Thru Authentication.

Hope that helps!