cannot find Freenas in Network (window 7-8)

[Frans Schutz]

Under Windows 7 or 8 I cannot locate Freenas
Since a couple of months I cannot find my Freenas directories throught Windows Network.
Who can help me further

I replaced my router for a new one.
On the router I see that the Freenas has a IP number. Trouble shooting gives no errors
I can log in to my freenas and have acces to all my account issues
I can connect to the files on the NAS throught FTP by Filezilla or Total Commaner
But, (And that is important for me) I cannot assign a letter under windows 7 to get easy acces

Before that I could assign a letter to all of my maps on the Freenas (3 disks)
When I run a Dos Command Net \\ View, all I see is my other computer and another nas(just a single drive)
but not the Freenas ( also run from another computer on the network)



NAS information
Systeem Informatie
Hostnaam FreeNAS.Werkkamer
Build FreeNAS-9.2.1.5-RELEASE-x86 (80c1d35)
Platform AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
Geheugen 1259MB
Systeem tijd Sun Nov 16 15:13:19 CET 2014
Uptime 3:13PM up 4:24, 0 users
Gemiddelde belasting 0.34, 0.12, 0.09

 

[DrKK]

Let's say your IP address for your FreeNAS is 192.168.1.10 (whatever it is in your case), and the share name is "fileshare".

Then, when you "map a network drive" in windows, set it to this:

\\192.168.1.10\fileshare

It should pick it right up.

 

[Frans Schutz]

Bad Luck.
I Tried this before, and now again. without result
An error came up Cannot find name.
error 0x80070035.
Checked that error on the internet and followed some suggestions. Bad luck again. Did not work for me
What wonders me is that i cannot find the freennas on the netwerk by mapname despite it has a valid ip adress.
sounds for me like a misconfiguration in the NAS so that it is not found on the netword.
But no idea where to look and what to change
any suggestions are welcome

 

[pirateghost]

Honestly, relying on hostname broadcast through samba and nmbd is stupid. Use DNS in your router and be done with the crapshoot.

If you don't understand DNS configurations, then use straight IP

 

[cyberjock]

You have less than 8GB of RAM. Why are you expecting FreeNAS to work with less than 1/7th the minimum recommended RAM!?