Drobo Pro shared Volume over the network not working after reboot

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Just got my Drobo Pro and hooked everything up ok using ISCSI

I’m using my Drobo for two different tasks. 1. For video editing I have around 6 TB of video footage and everything seems to be working okay with that.

  1. I also want to use my Drobo to serve all my DVD files to my media server and Western Digital set-top box both of which use a normal 10 – 100 network socket.

So the way I want have it set up is the ISCSI is plugged directly into my edit computer in my office, this computer is switched on 24 hours a day, one of the volumes on the drobo is for DVDs so I tried to make this a shared folder on the network so that my media centre PC and my Western Digital set-top box could both access this volume over the network from my edit computer. This seems to work fine however when I reboot my computer the volume is no longer shared??

I am running Windows 7 on all machines, is there some reason why a drobo volume on my computer cannot be shared over the network after a computer has been rebooted?

to set up the volume I was just going to Windows Explorer I right click on the drobo volume which is currently my Z drive and select, share with,advanced sharing.

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http://support.drobo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/309/kw/volume%20share/session/L3RpbWUvMTMxNDI3MjU3Mi9zaWQvT004Z1NwQ2s%3D

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ok tried step 1

To fix this issue, open a command prompt, type: “sc config LanManServer depend= MSiSCSI” and press Enter.

and it said access is denied???[hr]
Ok step 2

To enable peristence and binding of the iSCSI volumes (targets which map to drive letters):

1.Go to Control Panel.

  1. Open “iSCSI Initiator.”

In My control panel there is no “iSCSI Initiator.” icon ???[hr]

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You probably need to open that Command Prompt with Administrator access.

To do that, right-click on the Command Prompt icon and select “Run As Administrator” and then type in the command again.

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You can also run any command from the Run box (Windows-R or Start>Run) as Administrator by hitting Control-Shift-Enter instead of just plain Enter.
:slight_smile:

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thanks that worked with the Run As Administrator…

but step 2 says
To enable peristence and binding of the iSCSI volumes (targets which map to drive letters):

1.Go to Control Panel.

  1. Open “iSCSI Initiator.”

in my control panel there is no iSCSI Initiator ??

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click on the start orb to bring up the start menu

in the search box just type in iscsi and hit enter :smiley: