{"id":5284,"date":"2020-10-03T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2023-08-11T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:38:18","slug":"losing-sight-of-my-remote-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/losing-sight-of-my-remote-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing sight of my remote disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered that my two remote disks cannot be seen on my W10 laptop, nor my elementary OS laptop. I worked round this by rebooting the disks which are connected to the network via an RJ45\/USB connector to a BT Home Hub. This should work better than that. This is no longer a problem as I have replaced the Hub. This has been marked as deprecated. Here are my [old] notes. &#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Given this is seen on two laptops, with two disks units, via two connector technologies, the problem ought to be the hub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/101-network.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5737\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/101-network-1024x724.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/101-network-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/101-network-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/101-network-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/101-network-1272x900.png 1272w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/101-network.png 1684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I found <a title=\"Windows 10 losing access to network drives\" href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_10-networking-winpc\/windows-10-losing-access-to-network-drives\/0a1f0b63-cf16-4cac-9233-0f333dcb1b84?auth=1\">this on Microsoft&#8217;s community site<\/a>. This post on the BT Community site, refers to a BT HH3 but points out that the log is visible.<\/p>\n<p>I have posted <a href=\"https:\/\/community.bt.com\/t5\/Home-setup-Wi-Fi-network\/W10-amp-Homehub-5-error-disk-connections-requiring-disk-reboot\/td-p\/2158850\">a query on the BT Community Forum<\/a>., no useful response, need to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bt.com\/help\/contact-bt\/technical-support\/broadband\">this BT Help<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Best check it out next time it fails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered that my two remote disks cannot be seen on my W10 laptop, nor my elementary OS laptop. I worked round this by rebooting the disks which are connected to the network via an RJ45\/USB connector to a BT Home Hub. This should work better than that. This is no longer a problem as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6,48,3],"tags":[171,1184,710,172,1165,223,38,911,992],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networking","category-storage-technology","category-technology","tag-bt","tag-deprecated","tag-elementary-os","tag-homehub","tag-nas","tag-network","tag-storage","tag-technology","tag-w10"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bt-tower-2-w650.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}