Synology Nas - how to fix 'could not connect to all network drives' when PC boots?

[Spudgun]

Good morning all,

I set up a DS918+ over the weekend and everything seems to be working fine apart from 1 thing.

When I boot any PC/laptop on my network when the synology device is in hibernation i am greeted with the Windows 10 message that it 'could not connect to all network drives' when I get to the desktop. I have the mapped network drive to sign in with different credentials and if I wait a moment or click on the mapped network drive in my computer it will come to life.

Is there anything I can do to set this up differently (apart from turning hibernation off and running the drives 24/7?) so that this error message won't appear?

 

[Spudgun]

That would be expected no? - at that point in time the drive is offline. Or are you somehow pulling the NAS out of hibernation by attempting to connect to it's drive?

Does the same happen if you start the NAS before starting any windows machine? - iirc mapped drives have the option of reconnecting at logon, but again this would require the NAS to already be powered on.

What I'm hoping to achieve is to pull the NAS out of hibernation by attempting to connect to its drive when windows boots.

The NAS is powered on and the option is set for the drive to reconnect at logon, but the message appears if the NAS is on (but drives are hibernating) when windows boots.

If another PC on the network has already woken the drives from hibernation then the message doesn't appear when the next PC starts.

 

[Spudgun]

Thanks everyone, I've gone for the simple option of just turning the windows notification off with a quick registry edit:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
• SYSTEM
• CurrentControlSet
• Control
• NetworkProvider

1. New” > “DWORD Value“.
2. “RestoreConnection” value “0”

 

[Spudgun]

I run a Synology NAS that is left on 24/7 and never tun into this problem and all my network drives connect with every start up. I used Synology Assistant to map them.

Have you set your drives to hibernate after a certain time using the power settings in the synology control panel?