Problems with Windows Network discovery

[Nirvash]

I've been using unraid for a while now and so far it's been working good. I have my shares and I could access them just fine at \\HOMESERVER.

 

Context bit:

Today I added drives to the array and to my cache pools, so before I did that I had to disable VMs, Docker, move everything out of the cache and re-enable it when I was done adding drives.

 

My issue:

And now \\HOMESERVER is not accessible on Windows (Android and a Linux Mint VM on VMWare finds that path). If I want to access my shares I have to either use \\homeserver.local or the IP, \\192.168.1.130.

 

Also, on Windows, if I go to the Network "folder" in the Explorer, it finds my old WD Nas as "NAS", my router and other stuff, and all is reachable, unraid is shown as "HOMESERVER" but is NOT reachable. The other two paths I mentioned earlier are not discovered.

 

Why is my SMB share not working anymore on Windows? This seems entirely a Windows problem because as I said I can access shares from other non-Windows OSs.

 

EDIT:

By the way, there's a PiHole on my network acting as a DNS.

 

homeserver-diagnostics-20230919-2205.zip

Edited September 19, 2023 by Nirvash

[Mainfrezzer]

whats the output if you open the command prompt in windows and type in "nslookup homeserver"? (only the internal ips, if anything shows up)

[Nirvash]

I realized that my (stopped) LinuxMint VM (the one that lives in Unraid) was also named Homeserver. Maybe that's the issue, a good ol' conflict.

 

I'm going to try to rename unraid's shares to just unraid and see what happens.

[Nirvash]

11 minutes ago, Mainfrezzer said:

whats the output if you open the command prompt in windows and type in "nslookup homeserver"? (only the internal ips, if anything shows up)

 

Output:

nslookup homeserver
Servidor:  pi.hole
Address:  192.168.1.20

Nombre:  homeserver.casa
Address:  192.168.1.215

 

It's as I was saying in the previous post. .215 is not the correct IP!

 

Thank you very much, I didn't know about nslookup. I'll keep it in mind for the next time.

 

Edit: Yes, that was it. I changed my Unraid hostname and everything works as normal again. Thank you very much, @Mainfrezzer.

Edited September 19, 2023 by Nirvash