NAS and Newsbin/Win 11 Home

[buggs1a]

Hey all. I'm going to get back into usenet with Newshosting and Newsbin and Newshostings own usenet app/client.

I've got an 18 TB drive on my Asus router. I've got Win 11 Home. I can't seem to access the drive and i could really use some help. I enabled the network discovery thing when going to the file explorer and trying to load the drive. It pops up a little bar that needs to enable network discovery or something. When I click to access the drive tho it always says it can't. and it is set correctly in my router far as i know. i have been able to before tho in other computers. Could someone please oh please help me figure this out? I'd be so grateful.

I want to download headers for groups. I have no idea how many to do. i want all. but not sure how to do that nor do i think i have the time to download how ever many years of headers NH has. And would 24gb be enough ram for this? haha. I would settle for say a few weeks of headers at a time if possible. like 5 million headers, then 5 million older etc. 5 is just example.

Are there any good active free nzb sites like in the old days?

I want to save downloads directly to the NAS. Well it's just my drive on my Asus router. But not sure how to get windows to connect to the darn thing.

anyway thanks a lot guys.

[Stan]

I can't help with the NAS or hooking just an HD to a router and then trying to network with it.

I can say Newsbinpro offers different selections on how many headers to get.

In the last many years, at least, getting headers in bigger groups is next to impossible, not only because of the amount of headers some large groups have but most are obfuscated.

You mentioned Newshosting and their own Newsreader will get info from many groups, but again you run into obfuscated. And it only takes moments to see what's in groups.
Although I have found a drawback not all groups are updated properly in Newshostings newsreader, Some groups showing no updates since July of this year, yet they have posts later than that. As late as just the last few days.

The rest will, I am sure, be addressed by the programmer here, Quade.

There are as far as I know still a few free NZB sites, but again many were effected by the obfuscating.
Try to google for a few more, as I am not sure if we can even mention them here.
There are paid NZB indexers whom get past the obfuscated info.

Newsbinpro has its own paid search engine. https://www.newsbin.com/isearch.php

[Quade]

There aren't many groups with new good cleartext content anymore. I mean compared to before. The music, anime, skin and books groups are still active. The rest need NZB access.

Fixing your NAS is beyond what I can do. You need to configure it for SMB access because Windows is SMB for file sharing. Newsbin works fine with NAS's but, you need to get the basic access working first. As long as you can access the drive with Windows explorer, Newsbin should be able to access it too.

[buggs1a]

Thanks guys.
Is it not allowed to talk nzb sites here? It’s ok just curious.
I don’t like the idea of paying for an nzb site. Trust and don’t know if the site is any good. Would want try see first.
I guess even just downloading herders is not that great today as the subjects are meaningless. I’m sure a lot of them might be worth checking out but being garbled and not what the post is it’s impossible to know without downloading the whole post and hope it’s worth it. Since I don’t work and have the time plus no data cap I could but kinda stupid.

I feel bad that subjects don’t tell you anything. I understand having to like hide it but such a bummer.

My drive on my Asus router is an 18 tb. I connect to it fine from my Xbox series x. I watch movies that I have on it. Tons. But can’t access it from my new laptop. I had one a couple weeks ago that I could access it from but one folder some files were not showing. They show ok on my Xbox in vlc. I exchanged the laptop for a cheaper one from the same brand. I like this new one better. But it won’t even access the drive at all. File explorer says it doesn’t exist. It can’t find the path. So I wonder if it’s a bad install. I’ve restored to factory default windows recovery. But no different. So how can previous computers have no issues. Now the last two laptops have issues? Blows my mind. And I have absolutely no idea how to fix this or if it’s even possible on this laptop. If I had another win 11 laptop I’d try this on it.

Im unsure of getting usenet now as I don’t know the best server and with no nzb access I feel this is hopeless. I don’t know what to do.

[buggs1a]

I got a different laptop. The newest ASUS G14 14” OLED and no problem connecting to my NAS.

[buggs1a]

Reset my new laptop now can’t connect to my nas. Windows is so stupid .