February 6, 201412 yr Author Just tried it and it still doesn't help. I added the following line to the file and saved it without the ".sam" extension and rebooted. 192.168.1.101 Tower #PRE Even used the #PRE extension to preload the entry into cache but no go. I can ping Tower from a DOS prompt and it resolves to the IP address however if I try to access \\Tower from file explorer I get the same error message "Windows cannot access \\tower". :-(
February 6, 201412 yr I think you're pretty much at the WireShark troubleshooting point, don't you? From reviewing this thread I can't see that you've tried it yet. If so, my apologies! But, it's pretty easy to get going. All the best!
February 7, 201412 yr Sorry Ned, I was really hoping the lmhosts file would work for you (although it is kind of a hack)
February 7, 201412 yr Author Yeah me too :-) I appreciate the help. Seems that this is a protocol issue with Windows 8.1 so it does not appear to be related to name resolution. I really wish someone else running Win 8.1 could confirm if they are having this problem or not...
February 7, 201412 yr you could start a poll thread highlighting windows 8.1 name resolution (something to catch attention) and see what you get.
February 7, 201412 yr Yeah me too :-) I appreciate the help. Seems that this is a protocol issue with Windows 8.1 so it does not appear to be related to name resolution. I really wish someone else running Win 8.1 could confirm if they are having this problem or not... [/quote I run 8.1, i had issues then tried http://towername/local/ and it resolved. the only reason i tried this is because i have a mixed environment of pc and macs.
February 7, 201412 yr I do not have this issue running 8.1. This is not a typical problem or the board would be full of this complaint.
February 8, 201412 yr Author I do not have this issue running 8.1. This is not a typical problem or the board would be full of this complaint. Thanks for letting me know... this is so weird. I have tried everything and cannot figure out why the only thing that fixes the problem is to disable SMB v2/3... I have a very simple flat network. Everything is connected to the same unmanaged, 16-port gigabit switch on a \24 subnet. I can't think of anything else that would be causing this and all of my Win 7 PCs are fine.
February 8, 201412 yr Throwing this out there. Same workgroup/ domain? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
February 8, 201412 yr Author Throwing this out there. Same workgroup/ domain? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yup... and I've tried changing "Workgroup" to "WORKGROUP" all in caps on unraid server too which also didn't help :-(
July 19, 201411 yr Its been a day and so far i havent lost access to my sever. i believe disabling smb2/3 has been the only solution thats worked this long so far! hope it keeps working. thanks!
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