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Connect ReadyNAS directly to pc without internet?
Can Seagate NAS HHD 4TB hard drives that were in a ReadyNAS 316 be used in a ReadyNAS 104 4-bay Diskless or a ReadyNAS 314 4-bay Diskless? Does it matter what order they were in? They were mixed up. ...
Revised 12/7/2014: I am about to have a heart attack! :shock: After almost two days I finally found out by mistake how to deal with my problem.
Well let me start off fresh and say I live in the woods. No Ethernet. Just Wi-Fi through an AT&T card. I directly connected my NAS to the PC via Ethernet cable. I entered my PC's Network Connections Area and saw three connections. One was my Wi-Fi Card connection and the other two were from the NAS which were the Leaf Networks Adapter and the Ethernet Cable itself. Hi-light and right click on the Ethernet and Leaf Networks Adapter. In the menu box that pops up you will see "Bridge Connections". Go ahead and do so. After these two connections are bridged right click on the Wi-Fi connection and the Wi-Fi connection will join and "bridge" with he other two. After about two minutes all three connections were enabled and bridged. A fourth connection appeared afterwards called "Network Bridge".
I went back into the internet and I was able to enter into my PLEX Admin page and upload metadata. I was also able to update my firmware to 6.2
If you turn off the NAS after use but leave your PC on you will ever have to go through the steps mentioned above again. You will have to de-bridge everything and start over.
I'm so happy that I can get back to watching my movies and having my NAS up to date even though I live in the woods! At least now my problem can help out someone else down the line.
My eternal thanks goes out to mdgm, vandermerwe, StephenB, and xeltros for your help. :D
Well let me start off fresh and say I live in the woods. No Ethernet. Just Wi-Fi through an AT&T card. I directly connected my NAS to the PC via Ethernet cable. I entered my PC's Network Connections Area and saw three connections. One was my Wi-Fi Card connection and the other two were from the NAS which were the Leaf Networks Adapter and the Ethernet Cable itself. Hi-light and right click on the Ethernet and Leaf Networks Adapter. In the menu box that pops up you will see "Bridge Connections". Go ahead and do so. After these two connections are bridged right click on the Wi-Fi connection and the Wi-Fi connection will join and "bridge" with he other two. After about two minutes all three connections were enabled and bridged. A fourth connection appeared afterwards called "Network Bridge".
I went back into the internet and I was able to enter into my PLEX Admin page and upload metadata. I was also able to update my firmware to 6.2
If you turn off the NAS after use but leave your PC on you will ever have to go through the steps mentioned above again. You will have to de-bridge everything and start over.
I'm so happy that I can get back to watching my movies and having my NAS up to date even though I live in the woods! At least now my problem can help out someone else down the line.
My eternal thanks goes out to mdgm, vandermerwe, StephenB, and xeltros for your help. :D
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