Problems Mapping my shared folder

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Problems Mapping my shared folder

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I'm getting the same error message as knwt. I'm at my wits end.
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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I'm getting this again. I recently changed from the TS-269L for the TS-251 and now windows cannot access \\NAS\folder anymore.

I didn't change anything (but the firmware, of course) when I upgrade my NAS. I still have the Microsoft Network up and running as a standalone server, with the same server name and WORKGROUP, but for some reason my windows refuses to connect to my shared folders. "The network path was not found".

Oddly enough, when I use the Qfinder I can see my NAS, I can change the configurations, I can upload anything I want using this tool. But if I try to map a network drive (following these instructions: http://docs.qnap.com/nas/4.0/en/index.h ... indows.htm) QFinder shows up the same error message I got from Windows: "Network Failure: the device was not found on the network. Please check the device status".

How come it didn't find the device if I was able to connect to it and change its configurations seconds before?
Model name: TS-264 + Transcend 16GB RAM
Model name: TS-251 + Kingston 16GB RAM (2x KVR16LS11/8)
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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knwt wrote:I'm getting this again. I recently changed from the TS-269L for the TS-251 and now windows cannot access \\NAS\folder anymore.

I didn't change anything (but the firmware, of course) when I upgrade my NAS. I still have the Microsoft Network up and running as a standalone server, with the same server name and WORKGROUP, but for some reason my windows refuses to connect to my shared folders. "The network path was not found".

Oddly enough, when I use the Qfinder I can see my NAS, I can change the configurations, I can upload anything I want using this tool. But if I try to map a network drive (following these instructions: Connecting to NAS shared folders in Windows) QFinder shows up the same error message I got from Windows: "Network Failure: the device was not found on the network. Please check the device status".

How come it didn't find the device if I was able to connect to it and change its configurations seconds before?
  1. What is the internal IP address of the NAS in question?
  2. What Firmware Version/Build numbers is installed on the NAS?
  3. Which version of Windows are you using on the PC.
  4. Is Windows Firewall enabled?
  5. Is your Windows machine connecting via Wi-Fi or Ethernet?
  6. Do you have a user on the NAS which has the exact same username/password as your PC?
  7. Anything useful in the System Logs?
  8. From the Windows Command Prompt, what is the output of:

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    nslookup nas
    net view \\nas
    ping nas
    

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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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pwilson wrote:
  1. What is the internal IP address of the NAS in question? 192.168.2.11
  2. What Firmware Version/Build numbers is installed on the NAS? 4.1.1-20140822
  3. Which version of Windows are you using on the PC. Windows 7
  4. Is Windows Firewall enabled? No
  5. Is your Windows machine connecting via Wi-Fi or Ethernet? Wi-fi
  6. Do you have a user on the NAS which has the exact same username/password as your PC? Yes
  7. Anything useful in the System Logs? Did not check :P But the Windows Network Diagnostics sometimes shows that "the device won't accept the connection", sometimes "can't find \\PKNAS"
  8. From the Windows Command Prompt, what is the output of:

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    nslookup nas
    C:\Users\Kanawati>nslookup PKNAS
    Server:  mynetwork
    Address:  192.168.2.1
    
    *** mynetwork can't find PKNAS: Non-existent
    

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    C:\Users\Kanawati>net view /all
    Server Name            Remark
    ------------------------------------
    \\KANAWATI-PC
    \\PKOPENELEC           OpenELEC
    The command completed successfully.
    
    Did not find my NAS :(

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    ping nas
    Pinging 192.168.2.11 with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 192.168.2.11: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=6
    Reply from 192.168.2.11: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=6
    Reply from 192.168.2.11: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=6
    Reply from 192.168.2.11: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=6
    
    Ping statistics for 192.168.2.11:
        Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
        Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms
pings are ok
This is all really weird. I did not change a single configuration. I just put the HDDs and install the correct firmware when I changed from the TS-269L to TS-251. This is probably something really stupid I'm missing.
Model name: TS-264 + Transcend 16GB RAM
Model name: TS-251 + Kingston 16GB RAM (2x KVR16LS11/8)
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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knwt wrote:
pwilson wrote:
  1. What is the internal IP address of the NAS in question? 192.168.2.11
  2. What Firmware Version/Build numbers is installed on the NAS? 4.1.1-20140822
  3. Which version of Windows are you using on the PC. Windows 7
  4. Is Windows Firewall enabled? No
  5. Is your Windows machine connecting via Wi-Fi or Ethernet? Wi-fi
  6. Do you have a user on the NAS which has the exact same username/password as your PC? Yes
  7. Anything useful in the System Logs? Did not check :P But the Windows Network Diagnostics sometimes shows that "the device won't accept the connection", sometimes "can't find \\PKNAS"
  8. From the Windows Command Prompt, what is the output of:

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    nslookup nas
    C:\Users\Kanawati>nslookup PKNAS
    Server:  mynetwork
    Address:  192.168.2.1
    
    *** mynetwork can't find PKNAS: Non-existent
    

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    C:\Users\Kanawati>net view /all
    Server Name            Remark
    ------------------------------------
    \\KANAWATI-PC
    \\PKOPENELEC           OpenELEC
    The command completed successfully.
    
    Did not find my NAS :(

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    ping nas
    Pinging 192.168.2.11 with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 192.168.2.11: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=6
    Reply from 192.168.2.11: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=6
    Reply from 192.168.2.11: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=6
    Reply from 192.168.2.11: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=6
    
    Ping statistics for 192.168.2.11:
        Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
        Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms
pings are ok
This is all really weird. I did not change a single configuration. I just put the HDDs and install the correct firmware when I changed from the TS-269L to TS-251. This is probably something really stupid I'm missing.
Your local DNS is broken. It is unable to find "PKNAS".

I would suggest you enable the Local Master Browser on the NAS.

Control Panel > Network Services > Win/Mac/NFS > Advanced Options

Image

Enable Local Master Browser and "Apply".

Reboot NAS and PC's.

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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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Thank you Mr Wilson.

It was already marked, but I unchecked, restarted, checked again, restarted and nothing changed. When I use the ip address instead of the name of the device to map the network drive, I get this "The remote device or resource won't accept the connection".

Guess I'll have to use only my ftp connection from now on. :(
Model name: TS-264 + Transcend 16GB RAM
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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knwt wrote:Thank you Mr Wilson.

It was already marked, but I unchecked, restarted, checked again, restarted and nothing changed. When I use the ip address instead of the name of the device to map the network drive, I get this "The remote device or resource won't accept the connection".

Guess I'll have to use only my ftp connection from now on. :(
I don't know what to suggest anymore. Your original message said "nas", but your output suggests it is actually "PKNAS" in one place, and "nas" in another. This makes troubleshooting with you impossible. I'm not into "chasing rabbits through the looking glass...." Sorry...

Good luck.

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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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I use PKNAS. The NAS name you saw in one of my outputs was a tentative of renaming my ts-251 to something different from my old TS-269l. Sorry for the confusion.
But the results were the same.
Anyway, thank you for your time.

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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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Are the SAMBA processes running at all?

[~] # ps -ef | grep mbd
9451 admin 292 S grep mbd
20601 admin 1540 S /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -l /var/log -D -s /etc/config/smb.conf
20608 admin 744 S /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -l /var/log -D -s /etc/config/smb.conf
32209 admin 1448 S N /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -l /var/log -D -s /etc/config/smb.conf
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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schumaku wrote:Are the SAMBA processes running at all?

[~] # ps -ef | grep mbd
9451 admin 292 S grep mbd
20601 admin 1540 S /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -l /var/log -D -s /etc/config/smb.conf
20608 admin 744 S /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -l /var/log -D -s /etc/config/smb.conf
32209 admin 1448 S N /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -l /var/log -D -s /etc/config/smb.conf
I'll try your suggestion soon, Mr Shumaku. Thank you. But first I'd like to show you what happened when I tried to restart samba:

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[/] # mv /etc/smb.conf /etc/smb.conf.bak
[/] # cp /etc/default_config/smb.conf /etc/smb.conf
[/] # /etc/init.d/smb.sh restart
Restarting SMB services:
Shutting down SMB services:/usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 smbd nmbd.
Shutting down winbindd services: winbindd.
/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
samba locks directory is not exist, create it
locks path was set to /share//.locks
Starting winbindd services:Starting SMB services:/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
.
done.
And I found this on a QNAP german forum:
On 4.1.0 official firmwares for SMB model (TS-x69, TS-x70, TS-x79, TS-x80), we have claimed that they include samba 4.0 with support of SMB 3.0 protocol and domain controller function.
However, As samba 4.0 is still not mature, to prevent any unexpected side effect caused by this new samba version, only newly initialized NAS on firmware 4.1.0 include samba 4.0. If you upgrade from older firmware, for stability concern, the samba version is still 3.6.
If customers upgrade from older firmware and want to use samba 4.0 feature, but don't want to reinitialize the NAS, the following steps can add samba 4.0 to the firmware without reinitialization:
1. run "/etc/init.d/samba4.sh reinstall_samba keep" in console.
2. run "/etc/init.d/thttpd.sh restart" in console.
3. relogin webUI.
Do you know anything about this? Should I try this solution?
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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First of all you should reinstall your entire FW, since it's clearly incomplete.

http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Manually_Updating_Firmware
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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On 4.1.0 official firmwares for SMB model (TS-x69, TS-x70, TS-x79, TS-x80), we have claimed that they include samba 4.0 with support of SMB 3.0 protocol and domain controller function.
However, As samba 4.0 is still not mature, to prevent any unexpected side effect caused by this new samba version, only newly initialized NAS on firmware 4.1.0 include samba 4.0. If you upgrade from older firmware, for stability concern, the samba version is still 3.6.
If customers upgrade from older firmware and want to use samba 4.0 feature, but don't want to reinitialize the NAS, the following steps can add samba 4.0 to the firmware without reinitialization:
1. run "/etc/init.d/samba4.sh reinstall_samba keep" in console.
2. run "/etc/init.d/thttpd.sh restart" in console.
3. relogin webUI.
AAAAAND... IT WORKED!!!!

That fix from the German QNAP forum worked flawlessly!! Finally!!

Thank you pwilson for your help, shumaku for pointing me on the right direction and doktormor for the link about manually updating the firmware. That will be my last try if this fix didn't work.
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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pwilson wrote:

I would suggest you enable the Local Master Browser on the NAS.

Control Panel > Network Services > Win/Mac/NFS > Advanced Options

Image

Enable Local Master Browser and "Apply".

Reboot NAS and PC's.
At LAST! Thank you! My mapped drives disappeared from Explorer a while ago, and I haven't been able to get them back. I could access the NAS through the browser, I could ping it, and access my media files through DLNA, but could not swap files about using Explorer.

Surely this should be on by default?

I wonder how many of the hundreds of other people I have seen on the net struggling with this will find this thread?
Model name - TS-269L
Firmware version - 4.0.7
Operation System (OS) - Windows 7
OS Language - English?
Number of HDDs - 2
HDD model - WD Red 3TB
HDD capacity - 3TB x 2
RAID configuration - Raid 1
Services enabled, e.g. Download Station, DDNS, FTP, NFS - Have now disabled Download station etc.
External devices, e.g. USB printer, e-SATA drive - Sony PlayTV (not got it working yet!)
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Graham269L wrote:
pwilson wrote:

I would suggest you enable the Local Master Browser on the NAS.

Control Panel > Network Services > Win/Mac/NFS > Advanced Options

Image

Enable Local Master Browser and "Apply".

Reboot NAS and PC's.
At LAST! Thank you! My mapped drives disappeared from Explorer a while ago, and I haven't been able to get them back. I could access the NAS through the browser, I could ping it, and access my media files through DLNA, but could not swap files about using Explorer.

Surely this should be on by default?

I wonder how many of the hundreds of other people I have seen on the net struggling with this will find this thread?
P. Wilson passes away in november last year.
Great performance, to quote him, and to react on a 3 year old topic...
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Re: Problems Mapping my shared folder

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CylonCenturion wrote: P. Wilson passes away in november last year.
Great performance, to quote him, and to react on a 3 year old topic...
Thank you for your sarcasm, I see he taught you well.

How was I supposed to know pwilson had passed away? :-( RIP.
Model name - TS-269L
Firmware version - 4.0.7
Operation System (OS) - Windows 7
OS Language - English?
Number of HDDs - 2
HDD model - WD Red 3TB
HDD capacity - 3TB x 2
RAID configuration - Raid 1
Services enabled, e.g. Download Station, DDNS, FTP, NFS - Have now disabled Download station etc.
External devices, e.g. USB printer, e-SATA drive - Sony PlayTV (not got it working yet!)
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