For me some required windows services were not running. Starting them fixed the problem. Here are the steps I took which I found here:
There are two things we need to check. First, please verify the following Microsoft services are started and automatic:
- Service Service Status Startup Type
- COM+ Event System Started Automatic
- COM+ System Application Started Automatic
- Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider Started Automatic
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Started Automatic
- Seagate Dashboard Service Started Automatic
- Seagate Mobile Backup Service Started Automatic
- System Event Notification Started Automatic
- Task Scheduler Started Automatic
- Volume Shadow Copy Started Automatic
- Windows Event Log Started Automatic
To open Windows Services, Run services.msc to open the Services Manager. Here you will be able to start, stop, disable, delay Windows Services. Right-click on your Start button to open the WinX Menu. Select Run. This opens the Run box. Now type services.msc in it and hit Enter to open the Services Manager.
Secondly, the Seagate Dashboard software requires the following Windows prerequisites. To check this, open control panel In the search box on the taskbar, type control panel, and then select Control Panel. Then in the search panel type programs and hit enter. Make sure the following programs are installed on your system.
For 64-bit Windows operating system:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x86)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable (x86)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable(x64)
Microsoft .NET 4.0
Windows Installer 3.1
For 32-bit Windows operating system:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x86)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable (x86)
Microsoft .NET 4.0
Windows Installer 3.1
To check whether you’re using a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 10, open the Settings app by pressing Windows+I, and then head to System > About. On the right side, look for the “System type” entry. It will show you two pieces of information—whether you’re using a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system and whether you have a 64-bit capable processor.
1Please clarify your question. Can you access it from other computer? What you can't access, web interface, SMB share? – Romeo Ninov – 2015-01-18T05:29:02.787
I cannot access the Seagate Central NAS from my Windows 8.1 laptop. It is sees that it is there, but then a window displays with the message: "Windows cannot access \Seagate-XXXXX. Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found." I can access the Seagate Central NAS from my Windows 7 desktop with no problem. Sorry for not being more detailed. – MikeWStand – 2015-01-18T05:54:23.360
1Have you try to access it via IP address instead of SMB hostname? – Romeo Ninov – 2015-01-18T05:55:29.323