Not able to connect to NAS

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Not able to connect to NAS

I have searched and I cannot find anything that helped my situation. I have a NAS that I connect to with smb and it has been working perfectly for the longest time. I updated both of my computers to SL and now my Macbook cannot access the NAS but my iMac can. When trying to access the drive from the MacBook I type in smb://192.168.0.198 and then get the error: "The server "192.168.0.198" may not exist or it is unavailable at this time....". I am also not able to connect to any of the webpages that the NAS hosts using the internal IP address, but again only from my MacBook. From the MacBook if I try and go the the BT page that the NAS hosts I can get to it by the public IP so between being able to access the page that way and my iMac having no problems connecting to anything to do with the NAS I know the problem isn't with the NAS. Also I have not changed anything on my router so I don't see that being the problem. The only thing that has changed is the OS.

I have checked settings and all of the settings on my MacBook match what is on the iMac so I am not sure what else to look for. I have also tried adding port 139 at the end of the ip address and that did not work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Aluminum Unibody Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Nov 8, 2009 11:58 AM

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66sprite Author

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Nov 8, 2009 5:09 PM in response to 66sprite

A couple of other things.

On both the iMac and the MacBook I did a fresh install and not an upgrade. With the iMac, which can connect, I am able to ping the NAS, but with the MacBook I am unable to. Both computers are wireless and are on the same network as the NAS. The MacBook is able to connect to the iMac.

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Nov 8, 2009 11:46 PM in response to 66sprite

Sorry - post in wrong thread

Message was edited by: Przemek55

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66sprite Author

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Nov 9, 2009 8:42 AM in response to 66sprite

where should this be posted if not in the Networking section?

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V.K.

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Nov 9, 2009 8:54 AM in response to 66sprite

ah66sprite wrote:
where should this be posted if not in the Networking section?

he was referring to his own post, not yours. you posted in the right section. can you smb or afp from the macbook to the imac? did you modify your /etc/hosts file in any way? do you have firewall turned on on the macbook? or something like littlesnitch? any of those things could be responsible for this.

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66sprite Author

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Nov 9, 2009 10:02 AM in response to 66sprite

Thanks for the reply, no firewalls are on and little snitch is not installed. I am able to connect to the iMac from the Macbook with AFP, but I do not have another SMB share to test. I have seen some posts stating that Norton has caused this problem but there are no Windows machines on my network only the iMac, Macbook and an iPhone 3GS. The hosts file looks fine, there is nothing in there but the usual localhost entries.

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V.K.

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Nov 9, 2009 10:15 AM in response to 66sprite

you can enable smb sharing on your imac in system preferences->sharing->file sharing->options. see if you can smb to the imac from the macbook.
also, I've seen a number of posts here about people having difficulties with smb in snow leopard. try searching the forum and see if you find something pertinent.

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Nov 9, 2009 10:36 PM in response to V.K.

I enabled smb on the iMac and was able to connect but still not able to connect to my NAS. I updated to 10.6.2 and still no dice. I have searched but everything I can find points to Norton on a windows machine and the only ones about a NAS are for a dlink and beta firmware is hit or miss to fix it and mine is not a dlink.

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66sprite Author

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Nov 12, 2009 9:26 PM in response to 66sprite

V.K, thanks for your help. Turns out it was my router even though it was never touched. I wrote down all my settings, reset it, and put it back the exact same way it was and now everything works, so something must have gotten corrupted. Again thanks for the help.

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