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Initial configuring when no DHCP is available
First off, I didn't see an option for the model we have. 4312V2, but I picked the closest one. We shipped this NAS to the datacenter on the other side of the country. The network there doesn't ha...
infrafas wrote:I changed the IP of the machine I am attempting access from to a 169.258.X.X address, but still can't ping or otherwise access the NAS.
That would be the ZeroConfig networking 169.254.0.0/16 subnet - of course the machine must be on the same local network (what requires a local machine with a second interface or the ability to add a secondary IP on the active interface used for remote access).
Thank you for the reply. I changed the IP for the computer's NIC to the same subnet and that didn't work.
Adding the IP as a secondary Ip to the NIC did work though. I appreciate your help!
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