Gerard's codebase

This is a personal repository of code snippets and information.

Over the years I have generated lots of little sub programs and stored away acres of useful code snippets. The problem is always to locate them.

Even more time wasting is forgetting how to do simple things when you havnt developed in an environment for a few years (or even a few months)

My new years resolution is to start putting them up in a common place as I produce them. (thanks google)

They are handy for me and, with a bit of a clean up and documentation, they might be handy for others if they wander in here.

Gerard 2008

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

DLink 323 NAS box under Windows 7 or Vista

My D Link 323 NAS box worked perfectly under xp but with a dual upgrade to a Billton 7300 router and Windows 7 I have had continual problems.

After applying all the latest firmware to both devices I got it sorted

The final niggle was the 323 could be set up with mapped drives but I was randomly loosing my mapped drives when I shut it down. I could ping the NAS box and read the administration page and see the media server but could not access the file system via my mapped drives or device name ie \\NAS\Volume_1\

The solution turned out to be to use the ip address rather then the divice name in all mapping or accessing the device directly ie \\192.168.0.5\Volume_1\

This has been such a pain in the bottom I thought I would past it here - if someone is searching for the same problem they might pick it up.