Network drive issue
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I have been using the same network drive for about 10 years, never had an issue.
About 6 months ago it started failing to connect to the drive.
It was fine on other computers so pretty sure its not the drive but my PC thats the issue.
After a few weeks of faffing about I figured out a way to get it to connect reliably - once connected its fine till I reboot the PC.
This is what I have to do.
Open explorer
Remove the mapped drive.
Close explorer
Open another explorer
Open a different shared drive
Go back to "my pc"
Click map network drive
Put in the address of the network drive
Fails to find the drive
Press diagnose the problem
Whilst its running press cancel
Then press connect again and it connects straight away.
Works fine the rest of the day or till reboot.
Anyone got any ideas? Its doing my head in each morning having to do this process!!
Cheers!
About 6 months ago it started failing to connect to the drive.
It was fine on other computers so pretty sure its not the drive but my PC thats the issue.
After a few weeks of faffing about I figured out a way to get it to connect reliably - once connected its fine till I reboot the PC.
This is what I have to do.
Open explorer
Remove the mapped drive.
Close explorer
Open another explorer
Open a different shared drive
Go back to "my pc"
Click map network drive
Put in the address of the network drive
Fails to find the drive
Press diagnose the problem
Whilst its running press cancel
Then press connect again and it connects straight away.
Works fine the rest of the day or till reboot.
Anyone got any ideas? Its doing my head in each morning having to do this process!!
Cheers!
Open notepad and type the below, changing x for the drive letter of your choice.
Net use x: /delete
Net use x: \\enter\yourlocationhere /persistent:yes
Save to a convenient location and change the file extension to .bat
Double click on the new file - it should delete the mapped drive then remap it.
Net use x: /delete
Net use x: \\enter\yourlocationhere /persistent:yes
Save to a convenient location and change the file extension to .bat
Double click on the new file - it should delete the mapped drive then remap it.
Is it a Netgear ReadyNas?
I set my old one up at my parents and had similar issues - when I went to log on to the NAS I found i couldn't and further research showed that the last version of SSL for that model was so out of date it was now considered a security risk and so was being rejected by all modern network software. This meant I could not SSH on to it and the cookies required for mounting persistence were failing - hence why I could mount with no problems but as the connection times out the remote drive would no longer be accessible.
I set my old one up at my parents and had similar issues - when I went to log on to the NAS I found i couldn't and further research showed that the last version of SSL for that model was so out of date it was now considered a security risk and so was being rejected by all modern network software. This meant I could not SSH on to it and the cookies required for mounting persistence were failing - hence why I could mount with no problems but as the connection times out the remote drive would no longer be accessible.
Comacchio said:
Open notepad and type the below, changing x for the drive letter of your choice.
Net use x: /delete
Net use x: \\enter\yourlocationhere /persistent:yes
Save to a convenient location and change the file extension to .bat
Double click on the new file - it should delete the mapped drive then remap it.
Edit..Net use x: /delete
Net use x: \\enter\yourlocationhere /persistent:yes
Save to a convenient location and change the file extension to .bat
Double click on the new file - it should delete the mapped drive then remap it.
Sorry I was wrong it did work!
Thanks very much <sends virtual beer!>
Edited by red_slr on Thursday 4th March 14:55
Similar to what dapprman said, its likely a setting issue.
Likely your NAS is based on SMB1, which was disabled by default in a recent Windows 10 update. Check if SMB1 is disabled on your pc, enabling it again should enable you to reach the NAS again.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/st...
Open Control Panel in your PC/Notebook.
Click on Programs.
Click on Turn Windows features on or off link.
Expand the SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support option.
Check the SMB 1.0/CIFS Client option.
Click the OK button.
Likely your NAS is based on SMB1, which was disabled by default in a recent Windows 10 update. Check if SMB1 is disabled on your pc, enabling it again should enable you to reach the NAS again.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/st...
Open Control Panel in your PC/Notebook.
Click on Programs.
Click on Turn Windows features on or off link.
Expand the SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support option.
Check the SMB 1.0/CIFS Client option.
Click the OK button.
dapprman said:
red_slr said:
But it does map though, so I can still access it - just have to faff every morning with it?
Is that still likely to be the same thing?
It's the certificate that's the issue so mapping will work, reconnecting with out removing and re-adding it will fail.Is that still likely to be the same thing?
I had this issue with an old Netgear NAS. Some machines connected fine, others (brand new and old) didn't. What fixed it was clearing the cached credentials
https://www.top-password.com/blog/clear-saved-cred...
https://www.top-password.com/blog/clear-saved-cred...
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