What I have:
1) Buffalo Linkstation Live, model number LS-CH1.0TL
2) I updated to firmware 1.07 (both steps 1 and 2 confirmed by NAS Navigator2)
3) I'm running windows XP, with a Linksys 160NL router. Ive been able to successfully connect several laptops and a couple of printers to the router, using wired and wiress options, so it appears the router is functioning properly.
4) The linksys router has a utility that recognized the drive on the network
4) Windows firewall is off and no other firewalls exist (as far as I know)
During the installation stage of the Linkstation. everything seemed to go fine, until it tried to map to a drive letter. That's when the error message appeared:"remote default share is missing".
NASNavigator shows the Linkstation has a IP address, the same subnet mask as the other network devices, a default gateway of 192.168.1.1, and "WORKGROUP" as the workgroup.
I've seen similar issues posted here, but those solutions don't seem to solve my issue. Lastly, when I input the ip address <\\192.168.1.106> ( or <LS-CHL016> )into Start -> Run, I get the error message "the network cannot be reached".
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is my first time doing anything beyond a simple 2-3 computer network.