Netgear sc101 based NAS problem

[Gustavus]

I have set up a NAS for the four computers on my LAN -- based on a Netgear sc101. It works, but only with a convoluted work around I devised. When a computer is rebooted My Computer does not "see" the NAS drive. The work around is to disable the firewall in ESET Smart Security. The NAS drive is still not found, but if I then run the sc101 Storage Central Utility, the drive will be found, after which it appears in My Computer as it should. I can then turn the firewall back on and everything is OK until I need to reboot.

I have found on net that the way to fix this problem is to set udp port 20001 to be open (local & remote) in the firewall. I have read everything I could find on ESET's site, and worked through the entire advanced setup tree in ESET and can't figure out how this is done.

I am sure there are many of you running ESET Smart Security so I am hoping that someone can tell me how to set udp port 20001 to be open (local & remote) in the firewall.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Gustavus]

The problem I described above is completely solved and my SAN based on the sc101 is now working perfectly. On bootup all computers have the sc101 drive in the list of drives in My Computer, and any one of them can read from or write to the shared drive.

Since ESET Smart Security is one of the five or six most popular security suites, I would assume quite a few people setting up a SAN based on the Netgear sc101 will encounter the same problem I did.

The solution though is simple so I will describe it in case their search for help leads them here.

Open the ESET Smart Security page, click on the Advanced Firewall Setup and in Filtering Mode select "Learning" and OK your way out. Now click on the Storage Central Manager Utility icon on the desktop. SCM will start a search for a Storage Central device which causes ESET to create a new rule.

ESET will pop up a box labeled ESET Smart Security - Personal Firewall, saying "A new rule has been created. It will show on the next line; Protocol UDP and Direction Out and on the next line; SCM.exe. In a moment it will pop up a similiar box showing Direction In. After a delay you will get another popup box for Direction Out for Z-SANstorage.exe and then after a short delay a fourth box for Direction In for Z-SANstorage.exe. After this is completed -- if you have Windows audio on, two of the sounds normally associated with a USB device being connected or disconnected will be heard -- which is the sc101 drive coming on line.

You can now go back to the Advanced firewall setup for ESET and reset it to the default; Automatic.

You will have to complete this procedure for each drive on the LAN for which you wish the sc101 SAN to be accessible.

In my first post I referred to a NAS (Network-attached storage) which I have hed pointed out is not what the sc101 sets up -but a SAN. The difference is explained clearly here;

http://www.nas-san.com/differ.html