JockeSve  Ally Member

Final note; Time to abandon the device and move on… Thanks & bye!

https://community.zyxel.com/en/discussion/9154/nas542-compatibility-with-wd40efax Running 4 of those ATM in my secondary 542: Gonna swap to Seagate IronWolf 8TB CMR disks soon(ish).

@Mijzelf Thanks! Appreciate Your explanation.

Can You logon via Web gui? Starter Utility seems to be abandoned anyway (and personally I never used that).

https://community.zyxel.com/en/discussion/comment/61123#Comment_61123 Ohh, sorry, forgot to mention that MR is already installed and running just fine. Just wanted to ensure that I get the updates as they arrive. NAS542 / V5.21(ABAG.12) / MR: 20181001zypkg015 I'm mainly running 'Tweaks' to shut down unused/unnecessary…

First of all, thanks @Mijzelf for MetaRepository and all Tweaks. But just to be clear, how should 'web_prefix' look like and what URL should I add to MetaRepository's URL list to be as up to date as possible? Current 'web_prefix'; http://zyxel.diskstation.eu/Users/Mijzelf/zypkg-repo/ And line added to MetaRepository's URL…

OK, thanks for answers! I'm going to give it a try as the box looks like it needs a thorough cleaning… ;-)

Thanks @suisei! Yes, I saw these, however I'd like to see if there are any model specific differences to be aware about when disassembling the unit.

Howabout \\<NAS-IP>\ I.e \\192.168.0.102\

What would You gain by doing that? Kodi uses/requires local screen (graphics card) and audio for output! Plex is something completely different!

You could try flushing all network info: Clear web-browser cache! Start admin command-prompt Run following commands: net session /delete ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /release Restart computer! After that: Two questions; - Can You ping the NAS? - Can You reach NAS's admin web-console "http://192.168.1.236/"?

AFAIK has the FW version nothing to do with how client (PC) does connect/mounts drives. Maybe (a really wild guess warning here) it's the SMB version... 

On Windows (almost any version) just check the box for 'Reconnect at sign-in"

I never used "Starter Utility" of any kind but the easiest way is to mount/connect drives is using "\\ip.to.your.nas\sharename" and use persisten mounting.

Agree! The wording of the message is confusing" It should state something like "Server name must not contain ... " Current message can be read as there is forbidden chars in the name!