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WHY THE **** DOES IT TAKE THE COMBINED KNOWLEDGE OF AN ADVANCED PROGRAMMER AND A NETWORK EXPERT OF A GLOBAL COMPANY, PLUS AN INTELLIGENT PERSON WHO CAN OPERATE A COFFEE MACHINE, TO MAKE THE ****ING THING WORK?
WHAT HAPPENED TO PLUG AND PLAY? IF I WANT TO CONNECT THE ****KER UP I DONT EXPECT TO DIM THE ****ING LIGHTS IN THE LIVING ROOM OF A FLAT IN BANGLADESH, FEED THE GOLDFISH IN A LOFT APARTMENT IN SWINDON THEN ADJUST THE COLOUR BALANCE ON THE TV IN GREGS FLAT IN ****ING EDINBURGH BEFORE I DANCE AROUND A SMALL PILE OF BURNING STICKS IN MY GARDEN BEGGING YET ANOTHER PERSON IN A STELLER STAR SYSTEM FAR AWAY TO GIVE ME SIMPLE STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS TO GET IT TO ****KING WORK.
WINDOWZ IS PURE EVIL. IT HAS NO REDEAMING FEATURES. NO, NOT ONE.
NOTHING.
Poor show. Have you tried switching it off and on again? 🙂
How long did you spend making all the 'rant' guff up?
My Mybook world edition was plug and play admittedly not the fastest or most advanced NAS but lives in a cupboard and forget about it.
Network drive? I doubt it is running windows.
BTW, I just plugged my NAS in and it works, connects up to phones/TV/BD/AV Amp/Playbook/Laptop/Desktop/everything I have tried. Just plugged it in, simple as that 🙂
My Time Capsule just worked - plug it into the network and it just popped up on my MacBook. After adding my iCloud details into it, it even pops up as available no matter where I am in the World, so I can always get to those files I leave behind, repeatedly...
It even makes the connected printer available from elsewhere, too - so I can sit in the summer house on 3G, print something and then by the time I have popped inside to get a cup of tea, the printout is ready...
Rachel
You guys should group together and see if you can figure out that caps lock key.
WD Mybook Live NAS drive here, appeared on the network fine, runs Linux so installing Subversion and the like wasn't too much of a chore. The thing sits on 24/7 now, loving it.
What drive was it just out of curiosity?
Am hoping that squeezing mine won't be too much of a PITA.
Perhaps you're having trouble setting it up because your caps-lock is stuck on?
I got a 4 bay Raid Synology NAS just after christmas..... easy as pie to set-up (took about 10 mins, with no swearing or tantrums) and hasn't missed a beat so far.
To be fair, from reading the reviews there seem to be lots of NAS units around that are supposed to be complete guff - did you buy one of those?
I bought a Seagate GoFlex NAS drive a couple of weeks ago.
Now using it with 2 pc's, 2 laptops, 2 netbooks and 5 assorted iDevices with no problems settign up at all.
I'd avoid doing all the voodoo stuff and read the instructions if I were you 😉
At least Microsoft know how to spell "redeeming"
Fail
User error
Its a iomega home network drive...
If yours just plugged in and worked, go smear cake all over yourself.
Instructions are:
plug in to router.
plug in to mains power
inset disc to discover and set up drive.
No user error there.
Thats where it all stops.
so sorry what exactly is wrong? all I hear is complaining, no actual explanation
I once looked at an iomega drive and I don't think they supported 64 bit windows 7 so I gave it a miss. I'm sure that will have been sorted long ago though.
insert disc to discover and set up drive.
That would worry me. Surely a network drive doesn't need anything installed for the OS to recognise it - or is whatever flavour of Windows you are dealing with really that shite?
I have no idea what a Network Drive is but I have it on good authority that the following sequence ALWAYS works*
CTRL, ALT, DELETE
*may not actually be true
thats the problem, there's no disc drive on his NAS
usually they come with a CD/dvd with a 'nas finder' to locate the IP that has been dished out to it (unless it has a default one set, there are a couple of hundred to choose from) - other than that, no, I'd say it'd come preinstalled with software, unless you went REALLY cheap.