leila wrote:
Hello, i was experiencing the exact problems, always losing access to network shares… after an extensive search, i found what, at least for now (been OK for a month) seems to have solved the problem.
My setup is:
PC - Win7 Ultimate SP1 - 24/7 - Sharing all the data (videos/photos/music)
Well, you’ll have to check the event viewer system log, when i saw mine, there were alot of errors like this:
Source: srv
Event ID: 2017
Level: Error
The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.
Apparently, we need to tell Windows that we want to use the machine as a file server and that it should allocate resources accordingly.
Set the following registry key to ’1′:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache
and set the following registry key to ’3′:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size
After that, restart the machine.
Never seen the mentioned error anymore and as i said above, the problem is gone.
I gave this a shot, but no luck. Never checked re: the errors you got or anything, but I thought I’d give it a shot anyway. I’m running Win8,. but nevertheless found the same registry keys and changed them.
Recently shut off the power to the house and the breaker panel to do some electrical work, which shut off/hard reset the WD box, and when it popped back up it had lost the shares.
The only duplicatable solution that I have found so far is dmbottawa’s “Steps To Success”:
Step 1
Turn off Router
Unplug WD Media Device(s)
Shut down all PC’s/Laptops
Turn off WIFI on Mobile devices
Step 2
Turn on the network device that you wish to stream from. i.e. network share
Turn on Router, wait for it to initialize
Plug in WD Media Device(s), it should power on as soon as it’s plugged in and connect to the network
Turn on WIFI on Mobile Devices