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Hello everyone,

 

I'm having difficulties with the operations of my Link Station Duo Pro powering on and off based on the presence of computer hosting NASNavigator software.

 

 

I have one computer running Windows 7 HP that has the NASNavigator2 installed on it. When this computer powers on the NAS becomes visible and accessible  for all devices on the network. The moment I power off the computer the NAS goes into sleep mode or power save mode and virtually all devices on the network lose connection to the NAS. The only device that sees the NAS is the Router (it only notes it as an attached device) all other devices can't ping or accesses the webAccess interface.

 

I wanted to see if the NAS would sleep if that host computer is shutdown while another device is using the NAS concurrently via streaming audio and it did in fact disconnect the steam when the host machine powered off.

When the NAS is accessible it runs like a typical NAS device. Window's detect the NAS's netbios name. I can mount shares and read write to those shares. Raid1 work s fine.

 

 

I'm just having availability issues.

 

Its incredibly frustrating that in order to use this NAS some machine with the NASNavigator installed has to be on.

There are no SleepTimer settings configured on the NAS.  

 

Is this normal for this NAS? To be completely dependent on a piece of software in order to function?

 

Or is there a setting I'm missing out?

 

Model: LS-WVL/E

Firmware: 1.60 updated to 1.64

Computers/Network:

      - Workstations running Windows 7 HP, Windows XP, and several Android Devices.

      - Home network where all devices are DHCP enabled. Services such as NASes and Printers have IP reserved and IP Binding to their MAC addresses via the router. The LS-WVL NAS always receives the same IP.

      - NASNavigator2  ver.2.56

 

 

I'm having the exact same issue and started another thread... as was suggested when I looked at this thread... since the post hadn't been replied to in awhile.  It's disheartening that I'm seeing so many threads have gone unanswered.  If I find anything out regarding our issue, I'll be sure to follow up and post the solution here as well

My thanks to "davo" for pointing out the simple solution which worked for me... and hopefully for you:

On the back of the unit, turn the power switch selector from "Auto" to "On" (after gracefully shutting the Station down, that is)

On my system, I shut down the main PC - which caused the Link Station to shut down.  I then switched the power switch on the Station from "Auto" to "On".  I tested access on a laptop logged in to the network and found all mapped drives to be accessible. I then powered the main PC back on.