Can't see any shared network folders

[superfly77]

I recently had my AIOS connected to my network on a hard line and now cannot see the shared computers on the network. My previous setup had the AIOS hardwired to a router which was in Client Bridged mode with my main router and it saw the entire network all shared computers.

Now the AIOS is connected directly to the main router (and so are all the computers) and now I can't see any computers on the network. All the other computers can see each other but the AIOS doesn't see anything. Not even the WORKGROUP folder. Nothing has changed on this network except now everything is hardwired to the router. I even reset the router and all the computers network setting but I still can't seem to get it to work.

BTW I'm using the semiofficial AIOS-SO-FW- 3.0.1.7 R20 firmware.

[aasoror]

If rebooting the router didn't fix that then go through shortcuts instead of network browsing and that should fix your issue.

[superfly77]

If rebooting the router didn't fix that then go through shortcuts instead of network browsing and that should fix your issue.

Nothing shows up in the shortcuts.

And nothing really changed so what happened here??

[aasoror]

Nothing shows up in the shortcuts.

Press one of the coloured buttons (RED IIRC) and you should get a menu to fill the info for your shortcut, once you do that you should be able to connect without a problem.

[superfly77]

Press one of the coloured buttons (RED IIRC) and you should get a menu to fill the info for your shortcut, once you do that you should be able to connect without a problem.

I put in the IP of the computer I'm trying to access and User/Pass credentials but keep getting the Login Failed dialogue. Am I suppose to add something else?

And again, does anyone have any idea why this would happen? I've tried every possible thing short of throwing the box out the window due my frustration! I hardwired the line (expensive and time consuming) for this very purpose and now I'm stuck with these issues...

[aasoror]

I put in the IP of the computer I'm trying to access and User/Pass credentials but keep getting the Login Failed dialogue. Am I suppose to add something else?

Do you have login credentials associated with the PC you are trying to access.

And again, does anyone have any idea why this would happen? I've tried every possible thing short of throwing the box out the window due my frustration! I hardwired the line (expensive and time consuming) for this very purpose and now I'm stuck with these issues...

Well its related of how the network works, namely how frequent do the servers broadcast their info and how does the router spread such data.
Disappearing machines can be attributed to anything, routing glitch (that why I suggest rebooting the router), firewall or any other network related component update on the server PCs (things like MSN messenger update were known to cause issues in the past), I understand that you still have no issues with visibility among the rest of your network PC's but being an embedded linux device, these boxes might show anomalies with windows networking.

As I pointed going through shortcuts fixes this issue.

[superfly77]

Do you have login credentials associated with the PC you are trying to access.

I have 2 computers on the network. A laptop with no password that logs in no problem. A desktop with a password but it fails the login attempt everytime.

Well its related of how the network works, namely how frequent do the servers broadcast their info and how does the router spread such data.
Disappearing machines can be attributed to anything, routing glitch (that why I suggest rebooting the router), firewall or any other network related component update on the server PCs (things like MSN messenger update were known to cause issues in the past), I understand that you still have no issues with visibility among the rest of your network PC's but being an embedded linux device, these boxes might show anomalies with windows networking.

As I pointed going through shortcuts fixes this issue.

Router was working fine before so I don't think its the router. I rebooted it several time to no success. I even looked up how to get the SAMBA server running on Windows 7 but that didn't help at all. See link here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/75-63 ... amba-issue

Any other thoughts? The desktop that I can't seem to connect to on the AIOS is my main server so if I can't access that, then I have no idea what to do.

[aasoror]

Any other thoughts? The desktop that I can't seem to connect to on the AIOS is my main server so if I can't access that, then I have no idea what to do.

mmm .. blank passwords is disabled for windows sharing by default, the easiest way is this ..
create a user (with a password) on your windows machine.
set sharing (not homegroups) to that specific user (and make sure simple file sharing is disabled).
From the AIOS use the same user/pass to login to the PC.
Make sure there is no special characters (or spaces) in the user/pass you create.

[superfly77]

mmm .. blank passwords is disabled for windows sharing by default, the easiest way is this ..
create a user (with a password) on your windows machine.
set sharing (not homegroups) to that specific user (and make sure simple file sharing is disabled).
From the AIOS use the same user/pass to login to the PC.
Make sure there is no special characters (or spaces) in the user/pass you create.

I think you mis-read my post. The computer without login credentials works. The computer with login credentials does not work.

[aasoror]

I think you mis-read my post. The computer without login credentials works. The computer with login credentials does not work.

Nope I have read you correctly, still, windows disables blank logins by default (for security reasons), if you can login to your computer without login credentials this means you must have changed the networking options on your PC at one time in the past.