Linkstation lschl and twonky

[jonfletch]

Help

I have buffalo linkstation lschl which I thought had died 5 years ago.

For some reason it stopped appearing on the network and i wasn't able to access any of my data, none of my shared folders were visible. I thought the hDD was corrupt.

I plugged it in today as I've just had another NAS drive fail. My drive is visible on the navigator but not on the network.

The drive then appeared as a windows media player (pv connect) and I was able to play some of my old media that I thought I has lost.

I then discovered I was able to browse my drive with something called Twonky that appeared when I popped the IP address in my browser.

1. Is twonky the reason my drive is no longer visible on the network and I can't easily access my files.
2. How can I access this data other than using twonky.

I thought I'd lost all my old photographs so ideally would like to download these

Thanks

Jon

[1000001101000]

Most likely the device is using SMBv1 but your operating system has SMBv1 disabled for security reasons. Twonky probably works because that is a different protocol.

[Texturtle]

Here's an explanation of the likely problem:

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

[jonfletch]

Thank you so much, I can't thank you enough its worked a treat.

I feel a bit of a idiot that I didn't come here when it happened originally.

[Texturtle]

Glad we were able to help.

[jonfletch]

Thanks for your help yesterday.

I'm now trying to update the firmware from 1.07 to 1.73 but the updater software is not seeing the drive...any ideas?

[1000001101000]

There are two different devices called LS-CHL with different firmware that use different numbering. I believe the latest firmware for your device is the one labeled as 1.12.

This page has both sets of firmware and a note about the difference:
http://buffalo.jp/support_ap/support/products/ls_chl.html