akradiabra  Freshman Member

Hello Mijzelf You said "Another option is to install 3th party SMB2 support on the NAS" How easy would that be? Can it be done from within Windows? or is a linux based machine preferable?

Thank you for your reply, it looks promising on both counts. Whilst I have got your ear, so to speak, how will things pan out regarding the defined default shares as shown in attached image Network Drives 01.jpg. Will the increased capacity by adding another HDD be amalgamated within these defined shares? If so will the…

Yes I have a spare, I'll try that when I've been able to back up its contents. Is 4TB (3.58TB actual) asking too much because file oprations have only been an issue since it has started to reach full capacity. The current 4TB HDD is configured as JBOD. The spare is 320GB.

Kim quote: Have you tried to use another browser instead of using windows explorer? Not exactly sure how you would go about this although I can see that it should be possible having used ftp through a browser in the long past. I've tried using FastCopy ver3.89 and the same scenario shows up where I loose network…

Can't edit OP and having reread it, last line of first paragraph should read: My problem is only in NOT being able to copy or move files using windows explorer from the laptop to the NAS box or vice versa

In addition I have rebooted the laptop, restarted the router and reset the NAS box countless times to no avail.