Disappearing NAS drive

[FredWagner]

Our home network has a wired Vista-64 box, two Win7 laptops with WiFi connections,a WiFi connected Lexmark All-in-One and a wired Buffalo LANstation. All worked nicely, everything could see everything else, until an iPhone was added to the family menagerie, and suddenly we couldn't print anymore. Changing the Lexmark to a wired connection to the Vista box solved that (sort of) but now we've discovered that the Win7 laptops can't connect to the Buffalo LANstation either. They can Ping it, but it doesn't get discovered automatically, and we can't seem to map to it manually.
Is this likely a DHCP issue, or IP V6 issue, or ?
Suggestions welcome!

Fred Wagner

 

[BadBigBen]

iPhone

iTunes or QuickTime installed?

Bonjour service!.!.!.!.!

How To Uninstall or Remove Bonjour mDNSResponder.exe

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/02/10/how-to-uninstall-or-remove-bonjour-mdnsresponderexe/

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[FredWagner]

Ben - thank you for the link - I'll see if it applies at home tonight. I may also look for wisdom in the forums on netgear.com, the home of my wifi router. The puzzling part of this is that both Win7 laptops still get the internet through the router's wifi, but they've lost the ability to connect to the Wireless Printer and to the wired NAS drive, all on the same router. It does seem that the router's configuration changed about the time the iPhone arrived. When I was trying to reconnect to the printer, I could 'see' the other network device names through its IP configuration function, but they couldn't connect to it. I gave it a USB connection to the wired PC so I could use it again. I may try hardcoding the local IP addresses into the Hosts file on one laptop and see if that will let me map to the NAS again.

Fred Wagner

 

[fisheromacse]

depending on your router, try setting static IPs for your devices on the router, but below is more likely the solution.
I would not mess with the local hosts file.

iTunes has a history of not necessarily playing nice with some NAS devices.
One place i read "iTunes 10 breaks support for connecting to third party DAAP servers"
and on netgears site there is this, which depending on your device may contain a fix, if not, Netgear is officially fixing some models via firmware update:

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256850#p256850

 

[FredWagner]

Fisheromacse - more good points, thank you! I'll leave the Hosts file alone, see if the uninvited DNS responder is present and purge it, and check for a firmware update for the router, and maybe get DHCP on the Netgear unit back to playing nice like it did before. will work on it tonight.

Fred Wagner

 

[FredWagner]

Didn't find any evidence of the Bonjour MDNSResponder, decided to try mapping a network drive again - didn't SEE the NAS box using Browse, but using \\servername\folder in the mapping box brought up just what I was looking for, and the mapped drives show up in the Computer tab now. Will see if they come back up after a reboot. My wife suggested the usual explanation I give her for e-mysteries - solar flares! what goes around comes around! Will try to re-establish the wifi printer connection next..

Fred Wagner