Using a NAS drive with Firewall off

Not sure but think it is SMB, def not FTP. How could I find out?
Thanks.

Tried copying 20GB file and it got stopped due to having something like ..."names too long or punctuation". Then tried copying 686 MB of files and it went very quickly.

Only thing I can get to in the unit is a Pref file that allows me to turn on/off FTP for LAN Internet separately. Both are off.

It is not the ReadyNAS but the Home version, the STORA (Netgear model #MS2110) it was cheap and I thought if I couldn't get it working satisfactorily then at least no one would need to see me cry! And as an added bonus I would have a 1TB SATA disk.

Just noticed if I connect to certain portions of the disk and map so they show up in finder while File Sharing is turned on, then turn it off I can still access them as long as I do not eject them.

So maybe another way to attack the problem is to ask how can I map them permanently?

Turned on Windows Sharing, opened all suggested ports - same problem. It throws up a "WebDAV File System Authentication" panel which asks for User Name and Password.

I don't want to spend any more time on this right now, too much other stuff going on so I think I'll just do a temp mapping of the drive until life settles down.

I do want to thank you though for your time and effort - it's great to be able to connect with one of the Greybeards of the MAC world.

I'm marking the problem solved though since you answers got me thinking and led to the mapping idea.

Thanks,
rhys

I think I'll keep this open - I'll keep playing around as I get time and someone else may come up with a solution.

I'll give those a try tomorrow. Honestly the wealth of knowledge here is amazing.

Again - my thanks.

rhys

443 was the magic door - your a genius!

Final post on this topic. Yesterday and early today going out of my mind - on one of my two identical MBPs the Stora programs always worked, even with Firewall turned on and Port 443 closed. On the other with Firewall on and Port 443 open the programs worked sometimes and not others.

Finally while doing something else I noticed that one computer had the UDP ports blocked and one didn't.

So the solution is to go to System Prefs > Sharing > Firewall > Advanced > remove check from Block UDP Traffic. Opening the specific ports referenced in the S
TORA Manual does not suffice. The downside is that the computer will not go to sleep automatically.

Hope this information will be of assistance to someone in the future.

Netgear Stora tech help was no help. BDAqua as noted before is a genius.

rhys