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Cant't access root filesystem on Synology Nas with TC

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Hello and good day,

I have a problem I have spent quite some time on instead of working.
The answer is probably obvious and I will likely bang my head against the wall afterwards.

I can't access the root file partition on my Synology through TC and it doesn't show up in
Network Neighborhood when opening it.

I have tried any possible syntax in Network Connections I could think of.
Though accessing the underlying folders works in TC, for example, \\DiskStation\Music

I tried using different credentials one as user and one as NAS admin, also nope.

It works in Windows 7 although I remember having problems there to in the beginning but I can't remember how I fixed it. I even booted up Win 7 again to see if I could find out what I did to fix it but the settings where the same.

I can access the root file system through Windows file explorer with \\DiskStation

I have the same problem with PowerShell, cd \\diskstation = nope, cd \\diskstation\Music = yes.

Even ran TC as admin although I did not think that was the problem as it works in File Explorer.


Does anybody have an idea what I'm forgetting?

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Does it work when you use d \\diskstation\Music first, and then go up one level?
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Re: Cant't access root filesystem on Synology Nas with TC

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Thank you,
I tried doing your suggestion but there isn't even an option to go a level higher or to go to another directory on my NAS.
I have to connect to each directory on my NAS separately.
This I see when the directory Music is mounted to Z [ z:\ ]
A sub in the Music directory shows as [ z:\POP\ ]

What makes me baffled is that it works in Win 7 but not in Win 10, and I'm scratching my head at what I'm missing.
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Ah, you want to mount is as a drive! You cannot mount the list of shares as a drive, just the shares themselves.

Instead, try opening the path directly, e.g. via the command line in Total Commander, or via a button. The command is
cd \\DiskStation\Music
THEN try going one level up via [..] directory.
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The mounting as a drive is a workaround to at least access the shares in TC, I didn't have to do this in Win 7, there TC listed all folders and could navigate back and forth.
But this was a slap to the head moment I talked about , of course I can't access the root and all folders this way, stupid me... I can only mount them separately.
I will try this tomorrow as I'm working with Linux at the moment.
Thanks for helping me.
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Ah, cd \\DiskStation\Music then going one level up via [..] directory trough the command line worked.
Still no idea why this way work's and the "old" way does not.
But I can definitely work with this as I can now again navigate to all shares on my NAS within TC without first mounting them separately.

Thank you very much for your help !
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What about
cd \\DiskStation
directly, does this work too?
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I forgot to try that but that worked also.

So I can't access my NAS through Network Neighborhood the way I could on Win 7 but going through the command line works.
I can then do everything I could do in Win 7 but my NAS still does not show in Network neighborhood after accessing it through the command line.

I can work with this so I'm perfectly happy to consider it solved but I'm more then willing to continue if you want to see if it is a bug.
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Just put the command on a button or start menu entry (TC's start menu, not Explorer's), or add it to the Ctrl+D directory hotlist.
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Re: Cant't access root filesystem on Synology Nas with TC

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Thanks, that's a good option, just as quick as the old way.
Thank you for your support.
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Thanks for answers. I had same problem
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