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Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I'm trying to troubleshoot an odd behaviour across all my Windows XP Pro SP3 machines. As nothing else has changed on my network, after installing a ReadyNAS Ul...
No, they are static IPs. I agree it sounded like an IP conflict. Thanks for the suggestion.
Oddly enough, today there is no problem. I had turned off the Ultra most of the day, and turned it on last evening to resume a backup trial. So both NASes are now on. When I am browsing today, I can see my entire network. So I think I have to retract blaming the NAS, though it was when the issue arose.
Maybe something was affected in my setup process assigning the IP. When I moved the NAS in place (from a different setup location), I had plugged in the network cable to the bottom port on the Ultra NAS, not realising it would have a different IP (dynamic) than what I had previously assigned it (static) when using the top port. So after I realised that, I simply swapped the cable from bottom to top, and did not reboot. Could that have been been the contributing factor?
Very strange. It wasn't isolated to a single Windows machine; they all had problems, so it was either something in the router (which I have rebooted in the meantime) or one of those pesky network gremlins elsewhere from my innocent port swap.
It's an education. My other NASes (NV, NV+) have only one port, so I didn't really give this feature much thought, until now.
No matter; all good for the time being. Now just trying to tame a NAS-to-NAS backup.
Is there any benefit to having both those Ethernet ports connected? Would I achieve greater speeds? My network is fully gigabit.
Thanks again.
Oddly enough, today there is no problem. I had turned off the Ultra most of the day, and turned it on last evening to resume a backup trial. So both NASes are now on. When I am browsing today, I can see my entire network. So I think I have to retract blaming the NAS, though it was when the issue arose.
Maybe something was affected in my setup process assigning the IP. When I moved the NAS in place (from a different setup location), I had plugged in the network cable to the bottom port on the Ultra NAS, not realising it would have a different IP (dynamic) than what I had previously assigned it (static) when using the top port. So after I realised that, I simply swapped the cable from bottom to top, and did not reboot. Could that have been been the contributing factor?
Very strange. It wasn't isolated to a single Windows machine; they all had problems, so it was either something in the router (which I have rebooted in the meantime) or one of those pesky network gremlins elsewhere from my innocent port swap.
It's an education. My other NASes (NV, NV+) have only one port, so I didn't really give this feature much thought, until now.
No matter; all good for the time being. Now just trying to tame a NAS-to-NAS backup.
Is there any benefit to having both those Ethernet ports connected? Would I achieve greater speeds? My network is fully gigabit.
Thanks again.
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