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Readynas duo daisy chain to Thunderbolt issues
I need some help as I am in way over my head.
I upgraded to a new Macbook Pro with thunderbolt display. I also bought a Promise Pegasus DAS. I connected my Netgear NAS to the Promise with a Ethernet to Thunderbolt adapter.
Finder sees the Netgear as a shared device – both AFP and CIFS – but cannot open it to display the folders there.
The Netgear Raidar also sees the NAS with an IP address of 192.168.168.168. It cannot go the the setup as it says that the NAS is on a different subnet.
I have tried a lot of different options - manually changing everything, etc. but I cannot get it to work - see this thread http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2015989&p=-1&#bottom
Is there any way to make this work??
Pieter.
I upgraded to a new Macbook Pro with thunderbolt display. I also bought a Promise Pegasus DAS. I connected my Netgear NAS to the Promise with a Ethernet to Thunderbolt adapter.
Finder sees the Netgear as a shared device – both AFP and CIFS – but cannot open it to display the folders there.
The Netgear Raidar also sees the NAS with an IP address of 192.168.168.168. It cannot go the the setup as it says that the NAS is on a different subnet.
I have tried a lot of different options - manually changing everything, etc. but I cannot get it to work - see this thread http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2015989&p=-1&#bottom
Is there any way to make this work??
Pieter.
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- Set the I.P. address of your Mac's Ethernet NIC to 192.168.168.100 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0
mdgm wrote: Set the I.P. address of your Mac's Ethernet NIC to 192.168.168.100 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Do you mean the Wi-Fi IP address or the Ethernet-Thunderbolt adapter' IP address?
The new Macbook Pro with retina doesn't have an Ethernet port.- The Ethernet-Thunderbolt adapter
- Note also that connecting the NAS this way it won't have access to the Internet or to other devices of our network (apart from the Max it's directly connected to).
mdgm wrote: The Ethernet-Thunderbolt adapter
I have done that. Although finder sees the NAS under "Shared Devices" it cannot connect to it.
My Airport router is set to use addresses 192.168.168.1-200.
The Wi-Fi address is selected automatically.
The Ethernet-Thunderbolt adapter is set as per your instructions.- The NAS is set on its Frontview to 192.168.168.168
- I didn't say to change the range of addresses used by your router. Your Mac would be trying to connect to your NAS via your router but it can't.
mdgm wrote: I didn't say to change the range of addresses used by your router. Your Mac would be trying to connect to your NAS via your router but it can't.
Under Airport's "Network options" one can set the IPv4 DCHP range and it can only be 10.0 or 172.16 or 192.168 plus whatever else you choose for the third and fourth values as the range. It was set to 10.0 and I changed it to 192.168 as I thought that would work better with the NAS with a default, it seems, of 192.168.168.168.- Like I said, I also made 192.168.168.168 the default for the NAS in Frontview. Do you want me to change any of these?
mdgm wrote: I didn't say to change the range of addresses used by your router. Your Mac would be trying to connect to your NAS via your router but it can't.
Shouldn't the MAC try to connect to the NAS via the Ethernet-Thunderbolt adapter that the NAS Ethernet cable is plugged into? The NAS is not connected to the router now.
The Thunderbolt connection goes from the Macbook to the Thunderbolt screen to the Promise Pegasus DAS to the NAS via the adapter.
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