A few days ago I became unable to see files on the MBL. MBL is listed under network in my various file managers but when I click to expand I get this message: The device or resource (MyBookLive) is not set up to accept connections on the port “The File and printer sharing (SMB)”
I haven’t changed any setting to my system in quite a while so I can’t see how this has happened. I also have a MyCloud, WDTL Live, and a MyNet900 and I can still access all of them. It’s just the MyBook that is affected.
I can acces the Dashboard. The audio/video is accessible via WDTV, Denon receiver, MyCloud mobile app but I can’t do any file management @ all…well, I COULD delete files using WDTV if I needed to…
Have gone thru all that ‘turn file & print sharing on’ **bleep** already (it’s on or all those other networked drives wouldn’t work either). Have uninstalled/re-installed the MBL…rebooted, prayed to the Druid Gods but nothing seems to be helping.
So here I am…Any help??
It sounds like the SMB (samba) server on the MBL isn’t working. You can try to restart the SMB server by using Putty to SSH into the MBL. If a restart of SMB server doesn’t solve the problem, then you can surmise that the SMB server is corrupt. This means you need to reinstall the OS on teh MBL - not a big deal as a simple firmware upgrade will do the trick. If you are already at the latest firmware, then just trick the MBL into thinking it is an old firmware, and reinstall the new firmware. All the details about how to do everything i have mentioned are in many ohter posts here on this forum - search and you shall find. I figure if i give you the overall strategy, you can easily find the details with a bit of work.
Thanks! I’ll try that. Might take me a while but by this time tomorrow I’ll have researched and implemented what you suggest. It’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow so I think I’ll have plenty of time. I’ll let you know & Thanks again.
Putty didn’t want to cooperate with me - kept refusing the SSH password that MBL uses (welc0me). So, after some mucking about I came to this as a solution (hopefully):
" Network and Sharing Centre" → " Change advanced sharing settings", I noticed under the “Private (current profile)” → " HomeGroup connections" section was set to “Allow Windows to manage homegroup connections (recommended)” which didn’t look right. Changed this to the second option of “_ Use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers _”, then logged-out and back in which _appeared _to have fixed the problem.
So far so good, I can see AND modify directories & files now. Why it just quite working even though I hadn’t changed any settings is still a mystery but at least now it seems to be behaving normally again.
