Connecting mac book air with Lion to NAS NV+ directly

Thanks a lot for your help.

I now managed to get it going and I can see the NAS from Frontview - it all looked normal until I tried to access my shares in the finder however.

Here's what I did to access the NAS direct :

went to System Preference >> Network >> Ethernet >> Configure IPv4: Manually

IP address: I plugged in: 192.168.1.10
subnet mask: I put 255.255.255.0
router: nothing here

then I hit apply.

I powered up the NAS, plugged the ethernet cable into the computer.

Opened safari and typed:

https://192.168.1.10/admin/

but nothing shows up. On the NAS screen it says the IP is 192.168.168.168 so I also tried:

https://192.168.168.168/admin/

and it worked !! No idea why.

Then in the finder I clicked in the shared devices "homehknas" and I see my three shares appearing but when I clicked one of them called "storage", it says "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "storage" cannot be found".

So I clicked the next item down the list of shared devices "HomeHKNAS (AFP) and two shares appear called "homes" and "media".

"homes" contains two shares "admin" and "relisuco" but my other share called "storage" is nowhere to be seen.

I clicked "relisuco" and it seems empty but from Frontview it has some 420 GB in it!!

What is going on?
Why can't I access my own shares?