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The Hostname stopped working after a recent replacement of the DS218+.

My first step to fix this was to replace all batch files with the full "\\<IP addr>\ShareName" instead of the \\HostName, following a Support Ticket response from Synology:

Windows has changed the mechanism to discover ...

Just a quick note: I found a pair of orphaned sync.ffs_lock files in the local and server directories in question. Would this masquerade as a "bad net name"?

Hello all,

I am using a FFS batch file to run a Windows 10 scheduled backup to a file server located at a fixed IP address, but consistently errors out. I can manually initiate the same batch file inside FFS with no problems

The error dialog is
"Cannot read file attributes of "\\192.168.200.80 ...