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clarknova
join:2010-02-23
Grande Prairie, AB

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Re: WD TV

My coworker has a WD box and it 'loses' the samba share from time to time. He has to power cycle it to get the share back.
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Etobicoke, ON

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said by clarknova:

My coworker has a WD box and it 'loses' the samba share from time to time. He has to power cycle it to get the share back.

For me it has never been able to find my NAS on the network but Windows / OS X / Linux systems work just fine. Some other media players have the ability to manually input a hostname for the system so they can workaround their somewhat broken SMB/CIFS support but the WD doesn't allow the user to manually input a hostname. If you go into their forums you'll see that a very large portion of the posts are from users having issues with the device not being able to see systems on the network with which they have SMB/CIFS shares on. It's like are you kidding me? They still haven't fixed this.. even allowing the user to manually input a hostname would be an improvement for most users.