All my real hosts are Windows 7 .. all but one is 64 bit and all are kept fully patched. The hardware network itself is entirely Gigabit = router, adaptor, switches.
I guess my next step is to remove VMWARE and see if I have any change. thanks
At 02:54 PM 8/15/2013, you wrote:
Are all your hosts Vista or better, excepting the working 2k machine? I'm wondering if the WD Live! is trying to talk SMB 2.0 and failing somewhere. There was an update a few months ago that fixed a bunch of issues and I have a recollection of SMB being a big part of it, could be part of the story. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 3:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Need a network guru Yes, I have had this since 2010 and the firmware has been updated automatically... a lot of good improvements over the last three years. I am using the final version from January 2013. I tried going back to a previous version which made no difference so I let it auto update again to the January 2013 final version and that is what it is now. At 01:14 PM 8/15/2013, you wrote: >Have you upgraded the software on the WD recently? > >On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0700, Winterlight wrote: > > I am still trying to troubleshoot my WD Live! which works in every > > way except when trying to browse network shares. It can see media > > libraries. I can access and manage files on the USB drives > > connected to the WD Live. But the WD Live can not see LAN members > > when attempting to connect to network shares except for the one > > Windows 2k VM I always run on the computer that I need the WD Live to connect to. > > > > This is the only clue I have..why does it see the VM, but not the > > VM host computer? This is a new problem ... it worked for years > > before this problem appeared. Does this make any sense to one of our > > network pros. thanks > >-- > >Bryan G. Seitz
