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Old 19-08-2007, 11:52 AM
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Hi,

I recently purchased a Vantec NexStar LX NAS from ebay with a 500g hard-drive installed. I am having trouble connecting to it on my Macbook, through a Belkin Wireless Router. I have been able to connect to the IP address through Firefox to access the settings, and then I go FInder --> Go --> Connect to Server --> smb:\\STORAGE-BFA2 and get a connection failed dialog.

Any advice? This is the first time I've tried to do something like this and I have no idea really.

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Ben
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Old 19-08-2007, 11:56 AM
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Try smb://IP address and see what happens.
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Old 19-08-2007, 12:02 PM
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Still the same message :-( Any other ideas?
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Old 19-08-2007, 12:27 PM
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Um, guessing - would it be cause windows file sharing needs to be turned on?

Also, when I 'connect to server', I use forward slashes, eg :

smb://MY-NAS-DEVICE

Jeremy

EDIT yep just tried and Finder won't connect with backslashes - maybe that's yer problem.
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Old 19-08-2007, 12:35 PM
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Thanks man, that was it. I feel stupid now :-(
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