Magnus33 wrote:
I hopeing MS fixes this in windows 9 but i may be dreaming.
Also now that i think of it wd switched over to using tcp rather then udp which older firmwares used and was prone to problems.
This can be a problem for some cheaper routers and older versions of smb.
I found sometimes setting the pc and wd to static ip gets around this but results differ for everyones hardware.
the switch from udp to tcp I previously posted about was NFS only
and confirmed by reading /proc/mounts on WD
you can see attempted smb troubleshooting here
but still nobody with samba problems stepped up
there’s also quite a few networking things that are hidden on the WD
example primary file handling all networking is a binary simply called networking
with no help output as to what it does,or how to use it, what options it takes
yes, I suspose GPL source code might have it, but I never brothered to see what it does,
it seems to take care of all initial networking everyting
including the start wireless ethernet, smbd, nfs, etc …
it basically starts all networking related items
some more basic items like dnsmasq does not exist, dns appears to be handled by some of the other binaries mentioned
