Topic: NAS connected to Ethernet-wired LAN and mobile workstations that are regularly disconnected and reconnected******************************************************************************************I have a LAN with seven machines (five are mobile workstations) and two printers and several other networked appliances, including a NAS (network attached file server). My NAS is a Linux device, as opposed to a Windows-OS file server.What I have found is the following:If any form of Windows Network Discovery (WNDy, private and/or public) is enabled one will, or at least may, find that WNDy generates requests to the LAN router that will disable internet access on ALL machines (via spurious WIndows-generated overload of the router) on the LAN if the NAS is “mapped” or mounted at the time of physical disconnect from the LAN. This is a new “feature” or dysfunction of Windows (in my case, Win10 Pro). MS seems to acknowledge that this malfunction has been created (by them, without any noti
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