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Using Readyshare USB for Raid storage
Hello,
I work for a company that develops security cameras. We are setting up two PCs with seaparate image quality testing software and would like to create a central, local storage space for the t...
I appreciate that you're trying to help (I think), but I'm really not interested in advice given in solely sarcastic and condescending words. You may be an expert in this field and require information about certain settings and parameters that I have not even considered, but simply stating that I'm not being detailed enough without being detailed yourself about what exactly you're missing (as far as information is concerned), I can do nothing more.
I've ordered a NAS storage system so I will not be continuing this project. Thank you both for the time you did take to respond.
> [...] again, [...] this network is ocmpletely isolated.
Ok. Then who cares about "static IPs per company policy" if this
network never communicates with the rest of the company?
What you said initially was "Our test PCs do not access the internet
in any way." To me, that means something different from "none of this
stuff needs to talk to any other stuff in the company."
> [...] What needs to be configured to make the router compatible with
> the isolated network. [...]
Approximately nothing? It won't know the date-time unless it can
talk to a time server, but you may not care. If all the communication
is intra-LAN, then you can simply leave the router's WAN/Internet port
unconnected. (The lack of date-time might adversely affect the shared
file storage, however.)
> [...] there will be static IP computers connected to it (the two
> computers at 192.168.0.100 and 192.168.0.200) [...]
Ok. (But see below.)
> [...] and random static IP cameras (192.168.0.1-99). The computers
> only need to see the Readyshare storage.
Why would you want the cameras to have static IP addresses?
> By work around, I simply mean changing the computers to obtain their
_not_ "to obtain"?
> IP from the router, which we prefer not to do because the IP obtained
> from the router may interfere with the static IP of a camera that is
> preset. Wastes time to debug that situation and then change the IP of
> the camera.
You're working too hard on a non-problem. I'd choose different
static addresses for the computers, but it would be simple to configure
the DHCP pool to be ".100" - ".199", and configure the computers to use
".200", ".201", and so on, using either actual static addresses or
reserved dynamic addresses.
The router's LAN address would default to ".1", but you could
configure it to, say, ".250" or ".254" (whatever's memorable in the
non-pool range). Then, if the cameras have static addresses in the ".1"
- ".99" range, they should be happy enough if you don't use two of them
which are set to the same address. If a camera tries to use DHCP, then
it'd get an address from the DHCP pool (".100" - ".199"). Neither
would/could collide with any computers in the ".200" - ".249"/".253"
range.
> "No go" means that "it doesn't work" where I'm from. Sorry for the
> slang.
It means the same here. "doesn't work" is also not a very detailed
problem description. What's the problem? When you do what, exactly?
> When DHCP is off, the computers can not see the ReadyShare storage
> regardless of how the computers are set.
Define "see". How are they looking for it? All you should need to
do is specify the router's LAN IP address (whatever that is).
I don't see how disabling the DHCP server would affect ReadySHARE,
but I also can't see how the router is configured, or how you're trying
to use ReadySHARE. But even if I'm wrong, and ReadySHARE worked only
with the DHCP server enabled, I still don't see why running the DHCP
server (with a reduced pool, and suitably addressed computers) would
cause any problems. But I'm always open to a problem description which
reveals what you did, and what happened when you did it. (Hint: "no go"
and "doesn't work" don't do that.)
I appreciate that you're trying to help (I think), but I'm really not interested in advice given in solely sarcastic and condescending words. You may be an expert in this field and require information about certain settings and parameters that I have not even considered, but simply stating that I'm not being detailed enough without being detailed yourself about what exactly you're missing (as far as information is concerned), I can do nothing more.
I've ordered a NAS storage system so I will not be continuing this project. Thank you both for the time you did take to respond.
BSS_BT-SC_ENG3 wrote:
I appreciate that you're trying to help (I think), but I'm really not interested in advice given in solely sarcastic and condescending words.
Sorry about that. Sarcasm seems to be the default mode for some people. Most of the regulars try to be friendly and to understand what people are trying to do and to reply without being condescending.
BSS_BT-SC_ENG3 wrote:I've ordered a NAS storage system so I will not be continuing this project. Thank you both for the time you did take to respond.
Your application is not typical of many questions that crop up here, so it is hard to comment on this solution. But anyone who wants to use ReadyCLOUD or ReadySHARE to access data on their network from afar should look at the compatibility of their NAS with the router.
As you'd expect, Netgear's NAS plays better than most, but at a price.
Fortunately, with many NAS boxes you can set up remote access on ways that don't need the router to cooperate.
If you can bring yourself to return with the results of your experiment, it might be valuable evidence for anyone who turns up here with a similar challenge.
> [...] simply stating that I'm not being detailed enough without being
> detailed yourself about what exactly you're missing (as far as
> information is concerned),
Let's review one example.
> > When DHCP is off, the computers can not see the ReadyShare storage
> > regardless of how the computers are set.
>
> Define "see". How are they looking for it? [...]
How much more detail would you like? Do you think that "see" is a
meaningful description of what you did or what happened when you did it?
Do you think that "regardless of how the computers are set" conveys any
useful information about how the computers are set? I see plenty of
similar questions which got no useful responses.
> [...] I can do nothing more.
Apparently, but without some actual information (as specifically
requested) I can't diagnose your (technical) problem. I did offer a
suggestion on how to configure this stuff which would seem to overcome
all your claimed difficulties. I saw no response.
> [...] I will not be continuing this project. [...]
That's a mercy.
