Having trouble detecting and mapping network shares to certain computers on home network

[andreweddy]

Hey guys,

 

Having trouble with certain  computers on my home networking from being able to map the network drives on a western digital mycloud nas. Some computers on the network find it fine whilst others i have to use the wd software to access it over the internet rather than thru the local network.

All computers connected to the network are running windows 10, and the nas is directly connected to the router via gigabit ethernet, and then accessed via 5 ghz ac wifi.

any help or tips are welcome

[Electronics Wizardy]

map it with ip, does that work?

[Sir Asvald]

Download this:

 

http://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com/

 

It scans your network and sees all the IP's of all devices. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

Download this:

 

http://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com/

 

It scans your network and sees all the IP's of all devices. 

don't use that, use nmap.

[Sir Asvald]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

don't use that, use nmap.

I use, nothing wrong with it?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

I use, nothing wrong with it?

nmap is open source, much more used, runs on linux and osx.

[andreweddy]

automatic network discovery is on all pcs, and all have latest updates, its strange 3 pcs can access wd mycloud shares as drives fine, and three cant, will try mapping with the ip address during half time of liverpool vs chelsea and be back in a bit, and many thanks for help
 

[techmattr]

6 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

I use, nothing wrong with it?

Closed source software grabbing pretty much all the information on your network.... often times with elevated privileges. Granted that software in particular is widely used, however nmap is better, faster and as @Electronics Wizardy said, open source.

[andreweddy]

hey guys, so update is managed to map one of the network shares by mapping via ip, and logging is in to the mycloud, will update after match how it went with the rest of the pcs and mapping other shares

regards and thanks again

p.s. anyone think its wierd that the wd software for mapping shares on the network couldnt find the mycloud on the network on any pc, yet they mapped fine, and were found by the monitoring software no problem?

 

[andreweddy]

so far so good in mapping other shares to other pcs on network, thanks for help

[samiscool51]

it should be as simple as

\\device name or ip\share

then input cred's (if set)

talked to wd bout this

[andreweddy]

All drives mapped on all pcs, thanks for the help