Network storage device not visible in windows 7

[jamesbrown]

Hi there!

 

I have an icy box central network storage device, attached to my LAN. It contains 2x 1TB sata hard discs and is formated with a RAID 1 file system.

 

I have configured it to share files on the network. It is visible on the network page of all my vista machines, however it is not visible on my windows 7 home premium machine.

 

All vista machines are visible on the windows 7 machine, and the windows 7 machine is visible on all vista machines.

 

What is it about the icy box that is compatible with vista machines and not windows 7?

 

I have made sure that all sharing options + network visibility options are enabled in windows 7 so which can't it see the icy box? It can see everything else, including sonos players, cameras and all vista machines, but not the ice box.

 

Is there a file system (apart from samba) within the icy box i need to enable?

 

Thankyou very much in advance to anyone who can help with this :)

[Dalo Harkin]

If it works on Vista it should work with W7 (as W7 is based around Vista)

 

Have a look in the Manufacturers FAQ here:-

FAQ

[jamesbrown]

  Dalo Harkin said:

If it works on Vista it should work with W7 (as W7 is based around Vista)

 

Done that. My most recent research into this problem suggests that it could be because my windows 7 machine is a home edition, which means that it can only recieve a certain amount of connections from other servers, and it's flexibility on the network is limited.

 

This is just an idea, but i did obtain other windows 7 machine and tested that and everything worked fine, however this machine i borrowed was a windows 7 ultimate edition which has few connection limits.

[Dalo Harkin]

But thats true of any home edition:-

 

If its connected via LAN then all pcs regardless of their OS version should be able to see and connect to it..

is it connected directly to your router with CAT5 or USB or into a networked PC?