I have a Western Digital Network Attached Storage drive (My World Book) hooked up to my home network. For some reason, I can see the drive from the laptop that runs XP pro, but I cannot see it from the Laptop that runs XP media center edition. They are all on the same home network and I used to be able to see the NAS drive, but for some reason I cannot find it now. Anyone have and suggestions or ideas on how to get everything to play nice with each other?
Thanks.
No ideas on this at all? Anyone? Bueller?
Well, have you powered things down and then back up? Cables securely attached, power cords plugged in, the usual check-down list.
Does the drive have settings for enabling sharing? Is it plugged directly into the machine you are trying to access it through?
Start by answering those and it’ll help a little.
Sure, thanks Uncommon Sense
Yes I’ve done the power recycle option. Several times.
The drive is enabled for sharing. In fact I can see it from one laptop that is connected via wireless to the home network.
It is a Network Storage Drive. So it plugs in via CAT5 to the Linksys router I have.
So I have the home wireless network set up with the workgroup name “AtraelHome”. Both laptops and the Network Storage Drive also are all part of that workgroup. The Storage Drive and the one HP laptop see each other just fine. The new Dell laptop says that it’s part of the “AtraelHome” workgroup, but won’t see the other devices in that group. But it gets to the internet through the router just fine.
How many total network devices are there on the network, including the NAS and any printers. XP home and MC have a hard coded limit of 5 devices, XP pro has 10. So if you have 6 devices…NAS is the last one picked up for some reason, XP pro sees it, others do not.
Hmmm…I have the two laptops, the router, and the NAS drive. That is only 4. So I should be ok. However I did not do the “make a CD to take to other computers” when I set up the workgroup for the laptops. I just typed in the name of the workgroup. Is there some obscure reason that this has to be done? I remember reading that there would be issues between XP pro and XP home edition and a home network, but I can’t recall anything about XP media center edition.
Do you have shared printers?
Media Center doesn’t have the XP Home network limitations. Media Center is a lot closer to XP Pro than it is to XP Home. About the only thing XP Pro has that XP Media Center doesn’t have is the ability to join domains, which is not the case here.