Hi Ted,
I am an independent advisor and a Windows user like you, and I am hoping to help you out with this.
Can you provide the exact model of your Seagate Central external network drive? I believe it may be SRN01C?
Due to the age of the product (the manual at
https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/suppo... indicates it could be from 2014), I would recommend trying the following steps in Windows 10.
In the Start Menu / Windows Search, please type in "windows features" to bring up the Control Panel match "Turn Windows features on or off"
In the window that comes up, scroll down until you find "SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support".
Click the checkmark next to this, and press OK.
Hopefully this helps - please note SMB 1.0 is less secure and very old; this article is very technical but if you are interested in reading more:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Storage-...
Otherwise, you may want to try to disable the firewall or antivirus software temporarily, to see if it will allow the network connection to proceed.
I hope this has helped you. If this is not what you are looking for, please reply and let us know and we would be happy to look into providing some different suggestions!
Regards,
-Ashton