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[Tetsugaku-San]

Hi Everyone,

I just moved house and changed routers at the same time. I used to have a moderatley good Dlink, I changed it for a DIR-655 because of the GB networking. My problem is that none of my mapped drives work anymore, and I can't see my NAS (Named HAL (A Qnap TS-209)) on the network at all. The NAS is connected to the Dlink using a cat6 cable.

I *can* see the twonkymedia server, admin the NAS box, DL torrents etc.

I *can't* map a drive to the box from either my XP desktop or Vista laptop.

I *can't* even see the NAS on the network when I go to start/network

I presume as things were working before - this is actually a problem with the Dlink - but I can't for the life of me figure it out (and I have been going all day now).

I have some config info if it helps - I still haven't solved this!

On the NAS
Enable file service for Microsoft networking - YES
Standalone Server - YES
Server Description - HAL
Workgroup - WORKGROUP (same as the laptop I am using now)
All other boxes left unticked, although I have tried ticking them.

On the DIR-655:
Firmware Version: 1.10EU
Hardware Version: A3

IP Address : 78.86.189.55
Subnet Mask : 255.255.240.0
Default Gateway : 78.86.176.1
DNS1: 87.194.0.51
DNS2: 87.194.0.51

Typing: "\\HAL\Qdownload" (one of the drive names is 'Qdownload') into the Run command gives "Windows cannot access \\HAL\Qdownload". Clicking Diagnose gives me "Windows sent the request to the DNS server and the server responded that the name was unknown"

Please shout if you have any ideas at all

If anyone has any advice at all I'd appreciate it *SO* much!

Thanks in advance

[Lycan]

Are you running Norton or McAfee?

[Tetsugaku-San]

Hello - no I don't have any anti virus or firewall software installed other than windows defender and windows firewall on the Vista Laptop - both of which are turned off.

A bit more ifo - The NAS is on a fixed IP (192.168.0.10). I can ping the NAS on that address, and the admin for example works fine on 192.168.0.10:8080 and twonkymedia is on 192.168.0.10:9000, both of those continue to work no problem.

thanks

[Tetsugaku-San]

Sigh - always take note of the details - that's one lesson learnt from this.....

hitting start, run ''\\192.168.0.10\Qdownload' .....

Well that just works dandy - have to make sure you include the damn '\\' though....

I am a fool. Still no idea why the server doesn't show up as a name like it did before - but I am ery gratefull fore everyones input - hope this thread might help someone in the future

[Lycan]

Try enabling file and printer sharing on the windows firewall instead of disabling it.