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Hi I have an old Buffalo NAS drive (LS-WTGL/R1  GLS-W2.0TGL/RI-US  LinkStation Pro Duo) that I probably bought around 2006.    I used to connect to my Windows 7 PC with - pretty much no fuss.  Today, it just will not connect to my Windows 10 Pro machine.  I don't know why.  I have NAS Navigator 2 installed and Navigator 'sees' the drive.  Within Navigator if I right-click the NAS drive icon, that I am attempting to connect to, and select "Browse Share" nothing happens.   My MacBook connects to the NAS drive just fine.   So, I know the drive is connected to the network and functions. 

What do I do to fix this?

EDIT: It seems that the issue centers around the obsolete SMB1 protocol.   And, maybe, Windows 10 has that turned off by default for security reasons.  If you visit the Microsoft site they urge you never to use SMB1.  Understood.   But where is the (secure) solution for using old NAS drives on a Windows 10 machine?

EDIT 2:  added what I believe the model number is (crossed out the other number): GLS-W2.0TGL/RI-US

Quote from: silver_mica on May 22, 2023, 01:05:36 PMEDIT: It seems that the issue centers around the obsolete SMB1 protocol.   And, maybe, Windows 10 has that turned off by default for security reasons.  If you visit the Microsoft site they urge you never to use SMB1.  Understood.   But where is the (secure) solution for using old NAS drives on a Windows 10 machine?

There isn't one, pony up and buy a NAS that isn't 17 years old if you want to use it securely on a modern OS.

Not without replacing the OS on the NAS and setting up your own samba/etc

Quote from: davo on May 23, 2023, 05:11:14 AM

Quote from: silver_mica on May 22, 2023, 01:05:36 PMEDIT: It seems that the issue centers around the obsolete SMB1 protocol.   And, maybe, Windows 10 has that turned off by default for security reasons.  If you visit the Microsoft site they urge you never to use SMB1.  Understood.   But where is the (secure) solution for using old NAS drives on a Windows 10 machine?

There isn't one, pony up and buy a NAS that isn't 17 years old if you want to use it securely on a modern OS.

My data is on the old NAS drive - not a new one from the store.

Likely due to Windows update disabling SMB version 1.

https://www.buffalotech.com/knowledge-base/windows-10-cannot-access-shares-on-nas (https://www.buffalotech.com/knowledge-base/windows-10-cannot-access-shares-on-nas)

So, to recover my data - securely - is it possible, or would it work, if I simply removed the hard drive from my old NAS storage device and then jammed that hard drive into my desktop computer?    The old NAS drive is set up for RAID - a mirror.  The way I understand that is each hard drive is an identical copy.   

the data is usually stored in an XFS filesystem inside a software raid away. You should be able to attach/mount/access the data from a PC running Linux