Odd NAS issue? Synology DS210J

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Wonder if anyone can help me?

I have a Synology DS210J. PC has the necessary drives mapped fine. Just acquired a laptop and connected to network wirelessly fine, even mapped the drives to it fine. Oddly though on going back upstairs the drives had disconnected form the pc and everytime I tried to connect it threw up an errpor message something along the lines of

Windows cannot access to "Mapped path name: The network name cannot be found

Anyone had this before? Remapped the drives and working again now but don't want to go through this everytime I use laptop.

Are there any basics I might have missed ie pc needs to be name done thigns and the laptop something other or do I need to create an overall name for my network somewhere?
 
Did you set up a user in the NAS?
I've just been working on one of their higher end models, but I expect the UI is the same.
Synology have a web based UI - are you using this?

If so, set up a new user. Leave quota's off (unless of course you want to restrict that users available space)
This will create a Home directory for the user.
Make a folder in the home directory for the share.
Map that to a drive in Windows.
Select "Use a different username/password"
Use the NAS users user/pass when creating the mapped drive and be sure to check the "remember the u/n p/w" tick box.

You can then add that folder as a mapped drive on whichever machines you like, by simply repeating the above procedure.

Hope that helps?
 
Also, I discovered a much quicker and easier way of adding a USB printer as a network resource too.

Instead of using the usual Windows based method - "Add new printer" ---> Network based Printer ---> wait while it searches and probably doesn't even discover your printer!!! ---> etc.......

Plug USB printer into back of NAS.
Just go to Start ---> Network (or similar name) ---> Displays networked machines ---> see the NAS icon? ---> double click on it - it enters NAS device ---> see an icon for "USBprinter01" (or similar name" ---> double click on it.

That's it. It will add it and offer/load the driver. You may have to select the make/model in a driver pop-up box.
Now it's listed under printers and you can make it the default one if you like.
 
Hi,

Cheers for the reply. Yes my main pc was logged in under an admin account. I setup a guest account, albeit with admin rights and mapped teh drives to the laptop using the guest credentials and all seems fine now (touches wood :D).

Cheers for the knowledge on the printer, thats my next task so it's been immensely helpful!

My only other challenge now, under windows 7 on the lappy i'm trying to get it to include the contents of the mapped drives, however it keeps saying it can't vause their not indexed. Even though I ticked the box to index them in dsm. Not a masisve issue though, will just use teh shares direct.
 
You're welcome - Glad it helped :)

About the indexing thing......
MS have made a pigs ear out of the Win7 Libraries feature. Some directories with content can be added. Empty directories sometimes cannot. Sometimes, it will only allow 2 levels of sub-directories! To avoid the "not indexed" error thing - you'd need Win Search 4.0 and .NET framework x.x which, of course, cannot be installed on an non-MS sytem, like the Synology NAS boxes!
They provide a tool to help with this, called slutil.exe
It's cmd-line based.

There is also a nice graphical utility some kind soul has written. It's called Win7 Library Tool. I would take a look at this if I were you ;):
http:// *remove-me* zornsoftware.talsit.info/free-downloads?did=2

BTW, can someone tell me - is posting external links allowed here?? Thanks! :)
 
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