LAN 10 minute wait

[Dave Symes]

I've been fartin' around with this problem for a week now and am no
furthur forward despite a lot of work, so I'm hoping some learned person
here might have an insight.
Running Window 7 Home Premium on a Laptop.

I've recently attached a new NAS (Synology DS110j) to the LAN and for some
reason I can't fathom, or configure out, when the lappy boots if the NAS
is OFF, it spends the next 10 minutes or so doing something on the LAN so
there's no LAN communication between it and any of the other Win XP
machines.
The two XP machines don't care if the NAS is Off or ON, they just work.

The Harddrive in the NAS is not Mapped to the Network, so it can't be
looking for that.

I've Configured/Unconfigured/rebooted a mass of thing network related,
but no change.

Removed the NAS from the LAN completely but no change.

If the NAS is On when the Lappy boots, then the problem goes away, but the
NAS is only running at weekends when I do my computer backups.

Any thoughts/insights please?
Thanks
Dave

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[Gene E. Bloch]

On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:47:04 +0100, Dave Symes wrote:

> I've been fartin' around with this problem for a week now and am no
> furthur forward despite a lot of work, so I'm hoping some learned person
> here might have an insight.
> Running Window 7 Home Premium on a Laptop.
>
> I've recently attached a new NAS (Synology DS110j) to the LAN and for some
> reason I can't fathom, or configure out, when the lappy boots if the NAS
> is OFF, it spends the next 10 minutes or so doing something on the LAN so
> there's no LAN communication between it and any of the other Win XP
> machines.
> The two XP machines don't care if the NAS is Off or ON, they just work.
>
> The Harddrive in the NAS is not Mapped to the Network, so it can't be
> looking for that.
>
> I've Configured/Unconfigured/rebooted a mass of thing network related,
> but no change.
>
> Removed the NAS from the LAN completely but no change.
>
> If the NAS is On when the Lappy boots, then the problem goes away, but the
> NAS is only running at weekends when I do my computer backups.
>
> Any thoughts/insights please?
> Thanks
> Dave

Either leave the NAS on, or tell Win 7 not to automatically load network
drives (if you can in W7 - it's been a couple of OSes since I last did
that).

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