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Your firewall might be blocking it.

When I am trying to map the DNS-323 to Win XP as a drive I always get an error ´failure to map the drive´ with Easy Search utility and `with the explorer connect networkdrive.

I already switched off the firewall and conncted the PC and the DNS-323 directly via crossover.
The webinterface of the DNS-323 is working fine and Easy Search detected the drive and everything was fine until pressing the connect button.

The PC and the drive are in the same address-range(192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.32).

Most likely these problems is not related to DNS-323 at all. These are more likely your network/operation system/firewall problems.

In windows try to use:

net use * \\your-device-ip-not-name\HDD_a /user:admin

In linux try to use:

mount -t smbfs -o username=admin //your-device-ip-not-name/HDD_a

I had the exact same problem - and found a solution..
Swedish bought DNS-323 (FW1.01) with one Samsung Spinpoint 500GB, connected to a Gigabit switch.
Connected the drive to the left slot first, formatted with EXT2, web interface runs fine - but cannot connect on neither the Mac Mini OSX 10.4.8 nor the XP SP2!
So.. did all kinds of fiddeling and ended up resetting the unit to factory defaults. Also read that in single drive config, it's best to have the drive in the right slot, so I changed that.
Reformatted, with EXT2 once again. Now only testing from the XP since that's the one I know best.

The drive answers to ping and I can web to the interface.

Still cannot connect, using the 3.4.0.0 version of easy search..
When I try to map in explorer using Start - Run on XP i get the message "the drive could not be mapped because no network was found"..
So.. after some googling I found that this error message was connected to having the Workstation service in Windows XP stopped.
I started the service (dunno why it was stopped) and it all worked!

To start the service: Click Start, right-clict MyComputer, choose Manage, choose Services, right-click Workstation and choose Start. Make sure it's set to automatic to keep starting when you boot.

I dunno what part of my troubleshooting that solved it but likely a combo of the above as it works on both the XP and the Mac now.
Hope it helped some at least!

Kind regards,
/Lycaon

Last edited by Lycaon (2007-02-15 22:49:46)

No, the workstation service should be in standard mode, just make sure it's started.
Also, to troubleshoot further, make sure there are no firewalls in between the computer and the DNS-323 to eliminate one more possible source of problems.

Had the same problem.

Used another method. I will try to explain in english - hope you get the picture since my version of XP is Danish.

Open your explorer (not the Internetbrowser).
Use "Functions" and "connect to a network drive" (or similar).

Choose a drive letter

Enter the IP you have given the box and the volume name.

Example: \\192.168.1.50\Volume_1

Can not remember if I did this with or without the 2 backslashes in the beginning but if the example is wrong try removing them and it should work.

Check the box "connect on startup" or similar and it will connect every time you start your machine and the box is turned on.

Regards

My problem (which took me 2 hours to find out) was that I had disabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP in the "Advanced settings"->WINS in the TCP/IP proporties of the Local Area Connection Proporties.

I enabled it, and now it works!

I have had similar problems mapping to my 323 after I upgraded to Vista Ultimate.

After trying the suggestions in this forum and still having sporadic luck mapping a drive to my 323, I came across another forum that fixed my problem.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPo … p;SiteID=1

Apparently, Windows Vista (Which I have) uses a different kind of authentication type when connecting to Samba devices.

After changing the security policy as directed in the link above, I can connect to my 323 and can reconnect at logon with no problems.

I hope this helps.

Props to 714TLMan -- that was my exact problem, and that link gave me the exact solution. No problems with Vista Ultimate connections now.

I just solved this problem by totally ignoring the EasyDrive software that came with the DNS323

Instead I formatted the drives using the DLINK interface and then set up a workgroup. My DNS323 had been connected to my wireless router, but I could not find it on the workgroup I had created. I tried everything I could think of but with no success. This is when I realised that this was the work of the devil, aka Norton.

As soon as I disabled Norton's Personal Firewall, and restarted the computer the DLINK appeared in my office workgroup.

I then used the map drive facility under My Computer-Tools to create the logical drives and map these to the 2 hard disks.

Hope this helps.

P.S this was on Windows XP.