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WTF123's avatar
WTF123
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Mar 19, 2016

Cannot map drive

This drive is not NEARLY as intuitive as the Synology, all I want is to map this drive on my PCs so it shows up in "my computer" as a drive letter, allot of BLA BLA about cloud this and cloud that but nothing very directly understandable to an idiot like myself.

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  • To make this work as a mapped network drive on your computer, do you need to setup a static IP address for the NAS?

    • BrianL2's avatar
      BrianL2
      NETGEAR Employee Retired

      Hi WTF123,

       

      It is not required but it would be better if the ReadyNAS a permanent (static) IP address for ease of access. Also, routers have the capability to reserve an IP address to a network device that is connected to it via LAN or WLAN.

       

       

      Kind regards,

       

      BrianL

      NETGEAR Community Team
       

      • StephenB's avatar
        StephenB
        Guru - Experienced User

        BrianL2 wrote:

        ...Also, routers have the capability to reserve an IP address to a network device that is connected to it via LAN or WLAN.

         


        I recommend this approach if your router supports it.  It simplifies IP address management, and makes it a bit easier if you switch to a router with a different IP address range.

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