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Logging in using the ReadyNas name doesn't work
After updating the system to v. 6.5 the IP address of my ReadyNas changes after each reboot. Not much, just the last 3 digits. This means that now I always have to check the IP adress first. ...
The IP address comes from your router. Usually there is a way to reserve an address there, so it doesn't keep changing.
Resolving by name should work, but finding it by name sometimes is tempermental. If you reserve an address it might be more consistent though.
Turns out the IP adress does NOT come from the router. The router merely defines a range of permitted IP addresses. But the NAS does have a setting for defining a fixed IP address:
Look under "Networking", select the active link -> Settings -> IPv4 -> Configure: static. Done.
As for resolving the name, this feature is not temperamental - it simply doesn't work, never has, even though it's discussed on the OS manual.
-Franco
ZxF wrote:
Turns out the IP adress does NOT come from the router. The router merely defines a range of permitted IP addresses. But the NAS does have a setting for defining a fixed IP address:
You perhaps have never heard of DHCP. By default, DHCP is enabled on the NAS, and it requests an address from the router. Home routers all have DHCP enabled by default, and they will reply with an address (which is within the range you set up in the router). Most home equipment (PCs, tablets, smartphones, media streamers, wifi printers, etc) use DHCP.
If the NAS weren't getting its IP address from the router, you wouldn't have been able to reach it.
ZxF wrote:
But the NAS does have a setting for defining a fixed IP address:
Look under "Networking", select the active link -> Settings -> IPv4 -> Configure: static. Done.
Yes it does. There was a reason I didn't suggest using it. If you don't know what you are doing, then you can create IP address conflicts on your network. You can also lose connectivity to the NAS when you change routers. If you never heard of DHCP, and didn't know that the IP addresses come from your router, then you are in the "don't know what you are doing" category.
Address reservation (as I recommended earlier) is a much better way to go. You can manage all your IP addresses from one place, and accidental address conflicts are easily avoided. And if you get a new router with a different default address range, everything connects.
ZxF wrote:
As for resolving the name, this feature is not temperamental - it simply doesn't work, never has, even though it's discussed on the OS manual.
It works for all five of my NAS on my home network. However, there have been times when it failed for a bit. And there are plenty of posters here that have said that it works for some PCs on their networks but not for others.
I call that "tempermental". I did not mean to imply that it is working for you - clearly it is not.
You perhaps have never heard of DHCP. By default, DHCP is enabled on the NAS, and it requests an address from the router. Home routers all have DHCP enabled by default, and they will reply with an address (which is within the range you set up in the router). Most home equipment (PCs, tablets, smartphones, media streamers, wifi printers, etc) use DHCP.
I have indeed heard of DCHP, but the point is that my hotspot does not allow me to set an IP address for a specific device on the LAN.
There was a reason I didn't suggest using it. If you don't know what you are doing, then you can create IP address conflicts on your network. You can also lose connectivity to the NAS when you change routers. If you never heard of DHCP, and didn't know that the IP addresses come from your router, then you are in the "don't know what you are doing" category.
I may or may not be in that category, but it seems to me you are in the category "uncapable/unwilling to listen" or alternatively "I am not the right person for tech support". Feel free to decide for yourself.
Address reservation (as I recommended earlier) is a much better way to go. You can manage all your IP addresses from one place, and accidental address conflicts are easily avoided. And if you get a new router with a different default address range, everything connects.
Wonderful: a solution I can't implement. That's the kind of suggestions that every customer really looks forward to receiving.
As for resolving the name:
It works for all five of my NAS on my home network. However, there have been times when it failed for a bit. And there are plenty of posters here that have said that it works for some PCs on their networks but not for others.
Again: your "solutions" are not of much help to me. Perhaps asking yourself why it doesn't work in my case might just be more helpful instead of suggesting that everything is fine with this feature. Alternatively you might simply reply that this feature doesn't work as advertised, that Netgear is aware/or not of this problem, that it will be fixed/or not in a future release shortly, etc. etc. If there is something that a user doesn't appreciate - and that is understatement - is not being taken seriously or suggesting that his problem doesn't exist.
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