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Installation - "Cannot connect discovery server"
Hey - I have a brand new ReadyNAS 2014. I've added two 4TB Seagate NAS drives to it. According to the tiny manual that came with the 204, it is running OS 6.2. Upon turning on the system and tr...
What do you see on the ReadyNAS LCD when unplugging the network cable then plugging it back in?
This should get it to try obtaining an IP address again.
169.254.x.x is a self-assigned IP scheme, so the NAS did not receive an IP from DHCP.
If that doesn't work might be worth trying the other port on the NAS.
If you get into the NAS consider updating to the latest firmware (6.4.2) before proceeding with use.
If it still gets the same I.P. you could set the I.P. address of the NIC in your PC to e.g. 169.254.41.100 and go to https://169.254.41.172/admin and do a local update to 6.4.2. Once this is all done, don't forget to change the settings of the NIC in your PC back to what they were before.
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