I can see the Imogega Home Network Drive in my workgroup, including viewing the system info. I try to open one of the folders and I am told: \\Imoega-090c8b\pbsafebup is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found.This has been working for several weeks without problems. Using the home storage manager I see that no Network drive letters are displayed and when I try to map a network drive I am informed that the network path is not acceptable. Therefore I cannot access my valuable backups
Computers & Internet - Iomega - 1TB Home Media Network Hard Drive (34337BN)
Answers & Comments
This (and other problems having to do with accessing the drive or its folders) can be solved by:
1. Removethe drive from its case
2. Plug it into a computer
3. Boot the computer to a Linux-based OS -- if you don't have a PC running Linux, download one of many Live CDs images available, e.g. Knoppix, and burn a CD with it (Live CD images are bootable), then boot the PC using the CD
4. Login as the root user and open a terminal session
5. If necessary, 'umount' the drive, e.g. 'umount /dev/sda2'
6. Run 'xfs_repair -L <partition>' where <partition> is the partition to be repaired - in my case it was /dev/sda2, so running...
xfs_repair -L /dev/sda2
...was the command to do the repair. Note that the command is cAsE sEnSiTiVe.
You may get a message about destroying a log file (that's what -L does) -- it's OK -- I've had to do this several times and no harm has come of it.
The process can take several minutes, and at the end there may be a message about a bad superblock -- this is also harmless, so far as I've seen.
7. Power down the PC
8. Remove the drive, put it back in its enclosure, and Voila! -- all should be OK upon booting it up!
So Unreliable iomega, I repent for buying this product