You might consider disabling SMB 2.x just to see if anything changes. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2696547
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 5:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Need a network guru 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
