Vodafone Ultra Hub limited features?

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#248314 19-Mar-2019 15:54

I used to have an Asus RT something or other router on Spark fibre at my old place, it worked well, great speeds and allowed me to plug in my NAS which was easily accessed over the network from my panasonic TV, TCL TV and any computers in the house too.

I've just moved in with someone and she is on vodafone, and has the same panasonic TV I had. I am unable to map a drive to the NAS, although my computer can see it, but I can not connect, even with the synology assistant, I can see it, but I can't map a drive. I can however login via the webpage without issue. The TV can see it under media player, but not media server, which is weird.

And I suspect because of this some movies on my NAS do not play on my HT speakers, I thought the movies were knackered, but then when I turned the HT off, it played through the TV, which is odd as the TV has less sound capabilities than the Blu Ray HT.

The Ultra hub options for setting up the NAS are limited too, it sees it as a network device, but that is about it, not giving me options like my Asus had, and yes I tried advanced settings.

We got vodafone TV today, I was hoping I might have been able to plug the NAS directly into that, but nope, can't install extra apps, nor is there a second ethernet port available.

Any geeks with any idea of how to successfully configure a NAS on an ultra hub on a panasonic TV?

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#2201844 19-Mar-2019 16:21

You leave out every useful technical detail possible. Version of Windows? (maybe a Windows update has broken the SMB side of things), version of DSM? (the OS the Synology runs), does Synology have static IP?, my guess its on DHCP and you are mapping drive with netbios name.

P.S. The Ultra Hub most likely has absolutely nothing to do with your problem.

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#2201854 19-Mar-2019 16:30

I'm pretty sure its not the NAS at fault but the ultra hub, hence I was asking for gurus help on that.

But, the NAS is running the latest DSM, I should be able to connect to the share DSM211, or the IP, neither work, I get permission issues or network path not found. Now as I say, it was working at my old house on my ASUS router without issue. I've trawled through synology help and done what is advised which has made no difference, SMB version included.

I've tried finding what I can on the ultra hub, and the vodafone website makes zero reference to DLNA setup. The panasonic guide makes it look so simple, which it was previously, but again, I suspect it is this vodafone ultra hub that is causing the problem. I was able to get it working via media player, but that is not ideal as it doesn't seem to keep a library, so when I want to play music I have to wait for the pages to load to get to the playlist I want, where as previously through media server it would index and I could scroll to the page/letter I wanted.

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#2201914 19-Mar-2019 18:28

SMB issue most likely relates to SMB server signing or W10 disabling SMB 1 support.

Unless you provide very specific error messages and screen captures of exactly what you are doing on Windows machine then nobody can help. Ultra Hub is just a black box that isn't involved at all and nothing you can do with it anyway.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/887429/overview-of-server-message-block-signing

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#2201940 19-Mar-2019 19:09

I just tried using Synology Assistant to map a drive and it didn't populate the network location area with the mapping. Just do it manually via the This PC gui or commandline. If you get permission errors then you have permission problems.