After upgrade from 4.01 to 5.0 my DNS323 is no longer visible on my windows 11 network

[Nick Shortland]

I have been running Alt-F 4.01 for many years (since 2018) and all was well.  Until now!   My RAID1 degraded and I was preparing to buy 2 new WD-Red  4 Tb drives to replace the current WD-Red 2 Tb of which one had failed.  To use the bigger drives I felt I would be better to upgrade to 5.0 and also overcome the issue of SMB 1.0 needing to be re-enabled in Windows.  In the end, I stuck with 2 x 2 Tb disks and my RAID1 is ok and my file system is correct.

As it is 7 years since I last tackled Alt-F and as I am now in my 70s,  my re-learning curve has been steep.  I got there with the upgrade - I think!   However, my status page is blank other than the title, and my DNS323 is not discoverable from my Windows laptop.  

I hope somebody can help me.  This is driving me crazy.

Regards,

Nick.

    

 

[Tom Schmidt]

Nick,

    It appears that you have downgraded to the Alt-F 0.1rc5 release candidate from your prior Alt-F 1.0 installation.  There are no 5.0 (nor 4.01) releases; 1.0.1 (for the DNR-322L) and 1.0 are the latest, plus some hot fixes.  I suggest you reinstall Alt-F 1.0 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/ on your DNS-323.

     Also, clear the cache in your browser, as that may be what is causing the Web user interface to not work completely.

     As for SMB, install the wsdd2 Alt-F package and then you can disable SMB 1.0 for your Windows clients (unless you have some very old Windows versions).  There have been many discussions about this on this email list.

Tom

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[Nick Shortland]

Thanks Tom.

That got me back to a stable box on Alt-F 1.0.  I turned off SMB1 in Win11 and enabled Services for NFS tools and client in Win11.  This brought my Qdrive share back (on \\DNS323).  Excellent result.  

Regards,

Nicky

On 20 Mar 2025, at 19:05, Tom Schmidt <musta...@gmail.com> wrote:



Nick,

    It appears that you have downgraded to the Alt-F 0.1rc5 release candidate from your prior Alt-F 1.0 installation.  There are no 5.0 (nor 4.01) releases; 1.0.1 (for the DNR-322L) and 1.0 are the latest, plus some hot fixes.  I suggest you reinstall Alt-F 1.0 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/ on your DNS-323.

     Also, clear the cache in your browser, as that may be what is causing the Web user interface to not work completely.

     As for SMB, install the wsdd2 Alt-F package and then you can disable SMB 1.0 for your Windows clients (unless you have some very old Windows versions).  There have been many discussions about this on this email list.

Tom

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM Nick Shortland <nick.sh...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been running Alt-F 4.01 for many years (since 2018) and all was well.  Until now!   My RAID1 degraded and I was preparing to buy 2 new WD-Red  4 Tb drives to replace the current WD-Red 2 Tb of which one had failed.  To use the bigger drives I felt I would be better to upgrade to 5.0 and also overcome the issue of SMB 1.0 needing to be re-enabled in Windows.  In the end, I stuck with 2 x 2 Tb disks and my RAID1 is ok and my file system is correct.

As it is 7 years since I last tackled Alt-F and as I am now in my 70s,  my re-learning curve has been steep.  I got there with the upgrade - I think!   However, my status page is blank other than the title, and my DNS323 is not discoverable from my Windows laptop.  

I hope somebody can help me.  This is driving me crazy.

Regards,

Nick.

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[John Travell]

Nick,

First, and most obvious, you are running the wrong version of Alt-F. 0.1RC5 is a 'release candidate' not a full release.
You should be running version 1.0, albeit that that is only 2 years newer than what you have.
I have no idea what the limitations of the 'release candidate' are, but I would have expected it to show your devices.
Once that is sorted out, check your smb configuration, you need to share something before Windows (or Linux) can
find a share to mount.
So, upgrade to 1.0, mount your drives, choose what to share, and if you still have problems, ask again.
Ummm. nearly forgot. when you go to download 1.0, take no notice of there being a 1.01, that is a bug fix for a DNR-322L
and is not relevant to your DNS323.

John T

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[Nick Shortland]

Thank you John for the reply.
I also received advice from Tom and solved my problem last evening.
I’m back up and running.
Regards,
Nick

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