Accessing WDShareSpace by Device Name

[Joelc]

I hope that there is a simple solution to this so here goes…

I have a WDShareSpace NAS…I have nave the device / NAS HomeNAS.

In WIndows 7 using Internet Explorer I can access the device from IE by entering the URL http://HomeNAS.  

In OS X Mavericks using Chrome I can not access the device from Chrome by entering the URL http://HomeNAS (i.e  chrome times out). 

Know that you know the problem please tell me how to fix it so that I can access the device from with Chrome by entering the above noted URL.

Two points:

1.  I know that I can acess the drive using the IP adress from using Mavericks and Chrome but I want to be able to use the device name.

2.  What is strange is that I can access the device using OS X Mavericks + Parallels + IE which leads me to believe that it is a Chrome issue.

TIA,

Joel

[HDKnows]

Hello,

Try " http://HomeNAS.local/" on the Mac

[Joelc]

Appreciate the suggestion but as you can see from the below screenshot that did not work…any other ideas?

Thanks,

Joel