March 20, 201115 yr I normally access the unraid server from my laptop, but I just recently put together an htpc. The server and both computers are connected to the same router. I made sure the new computer was in the correct workgroup, and I can see my laptop, but the unraid server does not appear under network in windows explorer. I can access the server via the web interface.
March 20, 201115 yr I normally access the unraid server from my laptop, but I just recently put together an htpc. The server and both computers are connected to the same router. I made sure the new computer was in the correct workgroup, and I can see my laptop, but the unraid server does not appear under network in windows explorer. I can access the server via the web interface. google "master browser" One of the PCs on your lan acts to maintain the list of SMB shares drives. They only look at periodic intervals for new shares. Joe L.
March 21, 201115 yr Sorry to piggy back on this thread, but I am having a weird issue with accessing my server after a reboot. So I booted my server, which is configured to be the master browser, and when it came back up, tried to access it from my Windows 7 / 64-bit Pro running IE8. It was unable to load the web page, and then I treid to telnet I got the same result. I then did the "ipconfig /flushdns" command. After that I was able to access the server through telnet, but the browser still was unable to locate it. I finally closed down all of my IE windows and tried again and it worked. A similar thing happened a while ago and I left the computer alone for over an hour and when I came back it had not trouble accessing the server by name. I was surprised that flushdns did not allow IE to see the server. Is there a way to flush the browser cache separate from the ipconfig command?
March 21, 201115 yr nbtstat -RR will release and refresh the netbios cache. If you are getting host not found errors or are getting dns jacked to a "helpful" search page clearing your browser cache won't help. There seems to be a LARGE misconception floating around here that name resolution is happening via DNS. In 99.99999% of the cases this is not the case and name resolution is occurring via NETBIOS over TCP/IP. In the 0.00001% that DNS name resolution is taking place, the user is running their own DNS server locally and would have the know-how to clear this up on their own
March 21, 201115 yr Author Worked like a charm! Thanks What did you do? Joe L. Disabled the startup settings for the master browser service in administrative tools in the control panel on my main laptop.
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