NAS Troubleshooting

[Joseph Caputo]

Question: Turned on NAS option, it's been more than 24 hours and I don't see the BrennanB2 in my Network. When the guide say, "it may take a while...," How long are we talking? I have 11891 tracks at the moment. I am able to see the files using the File Explorer app on my phone/tablet. Thanks in advance.

-JC

[Peter Lowham]

Hi JC,

If you can see the B2 music files from your phone/tablet then that means that NAS is running correctly on the B2.  It also means that the problem lies within the PC.  With Windows or Mac, the NAS access should be available within 30 minutes or less, typically 10 minutes or so.

Windows 10 may need some setup adjustments to enable it to work with NAS.  Let us know what version of Windows/MacOSX you are using.

Regards,

Peter.

[Joseph Caputo]

Solved! Digging into the forums found that I needed to turn on SMB 1.0/CIFS Client in Windows. It's an option found by running a command (using "Windows Key"+"R") Open: optionalfeatures. Go down the list and select SMB 1.0/CIFS Client. Restart PC and BrennanB2 should appear in Network. Use "root" and "brennan" to log in. Thanks!

[Peter Lowham]

Hi JC,

Good news!  One thing to be careful of is that SMB 1.0 is known to be insecure (remember the outbreak of an epidemic called WannaCry?) so you need to keep you antivirus up to date.  Microsoft disabled SMB 1.0 in Win 10 in mid 2020 because of this security risk.

Regards,

Peter.