Problems accessing NAS

Graeme · 2020-09-08T16:04:43+00:00

This is a continuation of the Fritzbox story, whereby the Fritzbox has a USB hard drive plugged in, which I can see and access perfectly via my laptop, but not via wife's laptop. Both connected by wi-fi.I think this must be a permissions or sharing problem - but am not sure. We're running W10 on both laptops. Using wife's, I have now mapped a network drive and can see the external hard drive, but clicking the hard drive gives the message 'This folder is empty'. Clicking that drive on my laptop, I see the expected content.We both have user names and passwords, and can both log onto the Fritzbox itself, and both seem to have the same access rights.I've convinced myself it is a problem with Windows settings on her laptop, but beyond that?Any brilliant ideas? Thanks.

Sep 08, 2020 Last reply: 5 years ago 21 Replies

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Andy Burns 5 years ago

Maybe ... on corporate networks you have domain controllers acting as DNS (and even still WINS) servers to allow servers to register themselves and clients to find servers without resorting to "shouty" protocols

The netbios 137-139 ports are pretty old hat nowadays, the smb 445 port method has been the default since (IIRC) Vista.

Seems a lot of routers than include NAS functionality use ancient versions of SAMBA

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alan_m 5 years ago

In this case the router supports versions 1, 2, and 3 of SMB

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