8.1 not displaying NAS

rc211 · 17. November 2014

Hi Guys-

Like this software- super simple

BUT..... couple of things, cannot find answers for in search.

2 things:

1. Why does the NAS display and fully work but inconsistently in windows 8.1? (some of my pc's do, some don't same configs)

2.How do I make transfers faster? Currently at SMB of 11mb (but full cat5e environment vanilla setup/router) (dell 780 stock for the NAS)

things I did:
have experience with juniper routers, pbx'es, cisco switches etc.
mounted the OMV NAS drive
all permissions and even played around w. guest just in case.
user/pw is same as windows box (yes no caps or funny @*%#(@)
ftp works for all pc's.
rebooted, set permissions in gui and shares alc, etc. and deleted everything and tried several times.
redid non working pc's workgroup sharing- deleted, changed PC name, workgroup, back and forth.

I know its like a little thing what am I missing?

datadigger · 17. November 2014

Two weeks ago I've set up my home box with 1.0.20 from scratch (Been using 0.5 before for a long time) and discovered that the OMV box was not found in the network environment on my W8.1 PC. The culprit was how I named the workgroup under SMB/CIFS, I used uppercase letters like the workgroup was named in the computer's config.
Remembering a trial to include a OMV box into a windows AD some time ago where upper and lower cases matters I changed the workgroup name under SMB/CIFS to lowercase letters and voila, the box appears.

And for the network speed, CAT5e only indentifies the cabling, but not the capability of the network hardware, the switches you are using. Are they all on gigabit speed? A stable transfer speed of about 11mb/s is typically for a 100mbit connection.

subzero79 · 17. November 2014

Did you set privileges, permissions or ACL's? If you can, try and stay away from ACL and just use privileges in the shared folder section

rc211 · 18. November 2014

Its a weird windows firewall issue- I can browse and see all other pc's on the workgroup.

will post on my fix, so if anyone else has this problem they can save their hair.

subzero79 · 18. November 2014

Windows firewall blocks multicast (announcing) depending if the network is setup as public, work or home. Is very common, to have problems like this in multiple clients. I don't care anymore and I mount the shares as network drives

rc211 · 18. November 2014

Got it.

the old jiggle the switch trick.

Use windows firewall control as a neat front end software (like little snitch for mac) and had some interference with it- so uninstalled with revo rebooted, took stock windows firewall back to defaults, rebooted, reinstalled windows firewall control and set it up normally- works perfect.

donating to this great project. thanks guys.

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