I applied sp2 to my vista 32 ultimate install today successfully, however my unraid box no longer appears in the list of machines in the network listing.  Turning off the firewall, rebooting the unraid box and subsequently refreshing the listing doesn't help.

 

I've ensured the vista network and sharing settings haven't changed. Network discovery,file sharing,public folder sharing are all still on.  Password protected sharing is still off.  The network type is still set to private.

 

I've ensured the unraid box identification settings haven't changed, it's still assigned the default 'workgroup' name all the other machines have.

 

Unraid user level security is still set to off. all user shares are still set to export read/write.

 

The unraid ip address hasn't changed and is still on the same subnet etc.

 

I can get to all the unraid drives and shares via previously mapped drives and shortcuts but the unraid box just won't show up in the network list.

 

Has anybody else seen something like this? 

 

Any suggestions (other than uninstalling sp2)?

followup: I realized two other machines on the same (second) switch with the unraid box also aren't showing up so the problem appears to be related to that.

 

The first switch feeds the other and before the sp2 update, all the machines on the second switch showed up.

 

Odd (and annoying). 

I had this problem but fixed it.

 

Here's the story.

Did my first unRAID today. Was researching/testing on a minipc last night.

My main pc is Vista SP2. The minipc i tested with was using 2 ide drives. set it up, my vista sp2 saw "tower" in "network places" like it should.

I turn it off, bought unRAID Plus, put the key file on the flash drive, built a system today, put 4 drives in it, works fine, but did not show up in "network places", i can access via \\tower just fine.

 

I check the workgroup, it was set correctly (my vista sp2 main pc, and unraid was same).

I used my laptop vista sp2, it was different workgroup, i changed it to the correct one, and it saw "tower" in network places.

 

So I go back to my main pc that didn't see "tower". I change the workgroup to something random and rebooted.

Then when vista sp2 came back on, I then changed the workgroup back to what it's suppose to be (what is set in settings in unraid), rebooted.

Vista SP2 came back up, went to Network and BAM, I see "Tower".

 

So, try it, change your workgroup to something else, reboot, change it to the correct, reboot and you're done.

Hey thanks man, greatly appreciated.

 

I started to do this but I had been meaning to check my linux mail server on the same switch to make sure it had the correct workgroup name for the samba server.  It didn't (it was blank).  As soon as I corrected it the 'missing' machines in the windows neighborhood which were on the same switch as the mail server appeared.  I'm making note of your suggestion for the future though.  That's a useful simple trick I hadn't thought of.