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December 7th 08, 03:54 PM
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Invisible network drive (Linkstation) on home network
I run a home network (p2p) with two desktop (Vista Home Premium) computers, a
wifi connected laptop, a network printer and the network drive (above). All computers and other network devices have DHCP enabled. My router (D-Link DIR 615) handles the DHCP, but anchors the IP numbers to the MAC table entries of the networked devices. Now the problem: I can see the LinkStation hard drive on the Network explorer of one of my computers, but not the other. I have tried to find out what is different in the network setup between the two laptops. I have opened up the software firewall, none of which has made a difference. I can ping the Linkstation with both the IP number and the Netbios name (LMHosts), but I can't see it in the explorer on one of the two machines. Any suggestions? -- papaworx 
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December 7th 08, 08:37 PM
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Invisible network drive (Linkstation) on home network
Hi
From the computer that does connect to the LinkStation, log the LinkStation menu and make sure that there is no restriction on the connections, and or on the IP that can mange the device. I am not familiar with the 655 but if it does not have IP reservation set the LinkStation with Static IP that is out of the DHCP range. Jack (MS, MVP-Networking) "papaworx" wrote in message ... I run a home network (p2p) with two desktop (Vista Home Premium) computers, a wifi connected laptop, a network printer and the network drive (above). All computers and other network devices have DHCP enabled. My router (D-Link DIR 615) handles the DHCP, but anchors the IP numbers to the MAC table entries of the networked devices. Now the problem: I can see the LinkStation hard drive on the Network explorer of one of my computers, but not the other. I have tried to find out what is different in the network setup between the two laptops. I have opened up the software firewall, none of which has made a difference. I can ping the Linkstation with both the IP number and the Netbios name (LMHosts), but I can't see it in the explorer on one of the two machines. Any suggestions? -- papaworx
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December 8th 08, 12:29 AM
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Invisible network drive (Linkstation) on home network
All IP addresses are well within the DHCP range. That can't be the reason.
-- papaworx "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote: Hi From the computer that does connect to the LinkStation, log the LinkStation menu and make sure that there is no restriction on the connections, and or on the IP that can mange the device. I am not familiar with the 655 but if it does not have IP reservation set the LinkStation with Static IP that is out of the DHCP range. Jack (MS, MVP-Networking) "papaworx" wrote in message ... I run a home network (p2p) with two desktop (Vista Home Premium) computers, a wifi connected laptop, a network printer and the network drive (above). All computers and other network devices have DHCP enabled. My router (D-Link DIR 615) handles the DHCP, but anchors the IP numbers to the MAC table entries of the networked devices. Now the problem: I can see the LinkStation hard drive on the Network explorer of one of my computers, but not the other. I have tried to find out what is different in the network setup between the two laptops. I have opened up the software firewall, none of which has made a difference. I can ping the Linkstation with both the IP number and the Netbios name (LMHosts), but I can't see it in the explorer on one of the two machines. Any suggestions? -- papaworx
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December 8th 08, 12:31 AM
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Invisible network drive (Linkstation) on home network
Also, I can ping the Linkstation and map it as a network drive. If there were
any restrictions, this would probably be out. -- papaworx "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote: Hi From the computer that does connect to the LinkStation, log the LinkStation menu and make sure that there is no restriction on the connections, and or on the IP that can mange the device. I am not familiar with the 655 but if it does not have IP reservation set the LinkStation with Static IP that is out of the DHCP range. Jack (MS, MVP-Networking) "papaworx" wrote in message ... I run a home network (p2p) with two desktop (Vista Home Premium) computers, a wifi connected laptop, a network printer and the network drive (above). All computers and other network devices have DHCP enabled. My router (D-Link DIR 615) handles the DHCP, but anchors the IP numbers to the MAC table entries of the networked devices. Now the problem: I can see the LinkStation hard drive on the Network explorer of one of my computers, but not the other. I have tried to find out what is different in the network setup between the two laptops. I have opened up the software firewall, none of which has made a difference. I can ping the Linkstation with both the IP number and the Netbios name (LMHosts), but I can't see it in the explorer on one of the two machines. Any suggestions? -- papaworx
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December 9th 08, 07:26 PM
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Invisible network drive (Linkstation) on home network
These symptoms sound just the same as my problem (poorly described
he http://tinyurl.com/6ok9pr) so I'm interested in any suggested fixes  Adam On 8 Dec, 01:31, papaworx wrote: Also, I can ping the Linkstation and map it as a network drive. If there were any restrictions, this would probably be out. -- papaworx "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote: Hi From the computer that does connect to the LinkStation, log the LinkStation menu and make sure that there is no restriction on the connections, and or on the IP that can mange the device. I am not familiar with the 655 but if it does not have IP reservation set the LinkStation with Static IP that is out of the DHCP range. Jack (MS, MVP-Networking) "papaworx" wrote in message ... I run a home network (p2p) with two desktop (Vista Home Premium) computers, a wifi connected laptop, a network printer and the network drive (above). All computers and other network devices have DHCP enabled. My router (D-Link DIR 615) handles the DHCP, but anchors the IP numbers to the MAC table entries of the networked devices. Now the problem: I can see the LinkStation hard drive on the Network explorer of one of my computers, but not the other. I have tried to find out what is different in the network setup between the two laptops. I have opened up the software firewall, none of which has made a difference. I can ping the Linkstation with both the IP number and the Netbios name (LMHosts), but I can't see it in the explorer on one of the two machines. Any suggestions? -- papaworx
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