A couple of months ago, I bought an enclosure for my hard drive. I have a 1.5TB drive in the enclosure. I've got the drive setup to stream video to my TV. The problem is that when viewing the contents on the drive I often get problems which I think has to due with connectivity.

The connection is solid so it is not a case of weak signal. I've used different machines to test the rate. Windows is connecting to the network at 54 Mbps with a Good (3 bars) or Excellent connection.

When in windows it says that the computer no longer has access to connect to the drive. It also says that it might be a permissions issue.

I would like to know how to fix this. I tried using SSH to connect to the enclosure (which is running Linux) but it is not connecting on port 22. I don't know if maybe I can use Telnet or not (I've never used it), but there must be some way to get into the box in case there was ever a corruption and Linux had to be fixed.

Questions:

1. Can someone help me get into this box?
2. Does anyone have any ideas that I can do to take away the instability in the streaming?

Gonna need a little more info
what is the drive enclosure ( NAS or external drive on a Linux box)
im assuming your using samba to share out the drive.

The drive enclosure is a NAS. And, yes I'm using samba, but I've also tried using Upnp media serve (Tonkya or something) but that only works for one day, then it stops and I have to manually restart it. However, I still run into issues with that.

Depending on the type of NAS that your using you may or may not have access to it. I have a NAS200 from linksys and you dont have shell access to it unless you flash it with a custom firmware.

Is there not a way that I can use telnet to get into it? I'm not sure what it is doing but it keeps dropping the connection for some reason.

When I was having issues with my nas200 it was due to heat related issues. Linksys never thought home users would use 7200rpm drives in the thing aparently and designed the case wrong. If yours is the same model then that could be the issue. Telnet access may or may not exsit depending on what type of nas you have. Most low end home use nases dont come with shell access of anykind other then the setup web page. If you have a log anywhere on it you can try searching that to see if there is any kind of major problem. I know that is not much help but there will be limited stuff you can do. What kind of NAS is it btw?

It is a GXT Mobile Landisk. I think it is one that companies buy and then resell it with their own name on it.

Yeah it is. Its mmm mmm unbranded stuff. I did a bit of searching but dident find anything concreate on like issues. But just looking at the pictures I see that heat might be an issue.

There is a fan on the side of the unit though.

I did a port scanner on the IP of the NAS and I came up with open ports on 21, 80, 139, 445, 515, 9000, 9010.

I know that 9000 is Twokyo (spelling??) media server. I know 21 is FTP and 80 is HTTP, but I don't know the rest.