dk Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 I can't see my unraid tower in my laptop network (running windows7). Does anyone know if i need to tweak any settings on my laptop for it to recognize the unraid box? Link to comment
BRiT Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Are they in the same workgroup? Link to comment
dk Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 No idea if they are in the same workgroup. I have two windows7 laptop and they both appear in the network (didn't do anything special to make them appear in the network). Unraid tower is not visible. Link to comment
ohlwiler Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 See here to check on your windows 7 workgroup name: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/51711-workgroup-name-view-change.html To set the workgroup name in unRAID: http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Manual#Workgroup When installing windows the workgroup name is choosen, "WORKGROUP" used to be the standard, now it is "MSHOME". Link to comment
dk Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 Actually my network is called WORKGROUP. I changed my tower network to point to "WORKGROUP". It was looking for MSHOME before. After rebooting my tower and laptop, the tower is still not visible on the network. Link to comment
Meteorite Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 you could try to add ip + name to the localhost file. Are you running an 3rd party firewall (on the laptop) that blocks port 139 (zonealarm block like crazy) Link to comment
dk Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 i have added the ip address to the local host file on my laptop. this allowed me to access tower through webpage (using \\tower instead of \\ipaddress). it doesn't help with making the tower visible on the network. i have windows firewall running. Link to comment
eroz Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Did you t ry to refresh the network page? On my computer it tends to disappear if not accessed in some time. But either double-clicking on Network or pressing the refresh arrows will bring it up. It does take some time, 30-40 seconds to refresh. I think that might depend on how many Network places/devices you have. Link to comment
dk Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 i have rebooted all machines and tried refreshing the network multiple times. Still doesn't work. Link to comment
DigitalDivide Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 If you go to Control Panel, Networks and Internet, Network and Sharing, is your active network set to home, public or unidentified? I had a problem with mine being unidentified. Compare to the one that is working. Link to comment
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