NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi. Installed NASLite to HDD no problems. Can boot, configure and save settings no problem.

Remote computers don't see it, and cannot connect to it.
I cannot log onto the unit using HTTP in order to unlock it.

IP address is 192.168.100.100

I chose this address to keep the server well out of sight of the DHCP ADSL router also on the same network.

Am I allowed to use this IP address, or is this one special or reserved?

ADDITIONAL: I've just reset the IP address to 192.168.1.1, and it works fine. Am I not allowed to use 192.168.100.100 and an IP address for the server? Is that a restricted range or something?
Have also tried 192.168.2.X range, but that is denied access too.
Have set the server to 192.168.1.50 for the moment, and this is working fine, but I am concerned that the DHCP server in the ADSL router might try to assign the same IP address at some point, which is why I wanted to use 192.168.100.100 as the server address...

If say the address range of the network you have existing is 192.168.1.xxx and the netmask is 255.255.255.0 then the address 192.168.100.100 is out of the range of the network. Change the address to something in the same range as your existing one and it will work. Also set the DHCP server in the router to a smaller range, say 192.168.1.150 to 192.168.1.200 and set the static IP of devices like printers and the NL servers in the area above that.

Should work for you.

Mike

Ok - have moved the server to 192.168.1.50, and that seems to work fine, just so long as the ADSL router does not try to assign the same IP...

I can't get into the router - I have forgotten the password I used about 4 years ago to set it up...

With DHCP you should have a relatively fixed set of addresses used. If you turn on all the devices you use and then ping the address that you want to use and there is no response then you should be good.

Glad it worked,

Mike

Yeah, as a test, I fired up all machines on my home network, including the existing Windoze 2000 server, and checked all the IP addresses. They are all within 192.168.1.127 - 192.168.1.173
There does not appear to be any logical spacing between the numbers: some are only 5 or ten numbers apart, others are 15 or 20 or more apart. BUT none of them are lower then 127 at this stage.

Most machines, in fact all but one, remain on 24/7 so there should not be that many changes in the DHCP table I would hope, as the DHCP server will only be issuing new numbers every time there is a power cut or perhaps a reboot, but in both of those cases, I would hope that the DHCP server will try to re-issue the same addresses to the same boxes.

ANYHOO - Things seem to be perfectly happy at 192.168.1.50, and NASLite-2 HDD is happily transferring files as I write this(using another PC as the controller between the old Windoze server and the new NASLite-2 server).

This could take a while - the Windoze server is 2TB, and I am adding another 2TB to the NASLite-2 server, so that there will be 8x 500GB Seagates in the NASLite-2 server, but moving the 2TB from the Windoze server will take a bit of time...

OUCH!

Have fun with that.

Mike

Thanks!
I'll get everything moved after a few daze...