Hi – I have Windows 10 Pro running on a NUC6CAYH. There are many shared media folders, primarily on my external 4TB USB 3.0 HDD. They are set to “Everyone – Full Control” because I couldn’t give one half of a crap about security at this point (plus it’s inside my personal network.)
Everything is hooked up via CAT6 Ethernet and gigabit Netgear switches across the house.
The drive is shared from the NUC via SMB to a Paragon-equipped Mac Mini hooked up to a TV in one room, and an Nvidia Shield TV in another room. I’ve been fighting this crap so long I’ve probably posted about it before.
All devices are using static IPs within the network for my own sanity. No connectivity issues with the NTFS-formatted USB 3.0 drive to the NUC.
It will run fine for days and days, and then I install something on the Mac and reboot… everything goes haywire. Sometimes it affects the Shield, more often the Mac.
When it does finally decide to connect, it’s completely, totally random. I’ll go to Finder, Go, Connect to server, smb://10.0.1.183 sixty five times. 2 days later, It’ll connect on the 4th try. W.T.F. There’s no logic, no standard troubleshooting I can even begin to think of.
I downloaded some freeware package from http://www.jankamp.com that worked the first time. Now it says all shares are in perfect condition. No, they’re not.
If there was a $500 piece of software that guaranteed share continuity in perpetuity that I could have up and running in the next 5 minutes with no fighting, no troubleshooting, no crap – just a simple install wizard, I would own it immediately. I have the full Paragon driver suite installed on Windows 10 and macOS Sierra, so that’s not an issue.
The Nvidia Shield doesn’t care what filesystem you’re using.
Isn’t it 2017? Why is this still happening? Not a clue where to go from here, and quite surprised that nobody seems to have cashed in on this obvious problem by coming up with some legit software to repair share issues and just run in the system tray or something. I know it’s not just me – I’ve seen others mystified as well with intermittent Windows shares.
Help. Please.
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