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gkvic
Dec 12, 2023Aspirant
RN212 Unable to Connect from Win11
Hi all, having a new issue as of today (yesterday was fine) of not being able to connect to my RN212 (not the NAS' fault). It's just 1 PC that i'm having trouble with. I cannot ping it (dest. ho...
- Dec 31, 2023
Happened again, the NAS wasn't showing up in the ARP cache.
ran "netsh interface ip delete arpcache"
and it immediately fixed it.
gkvic
Dec 12, 2023Aspirant
Pinging by IP, the NAS also has had that IP reserved for it for years, it can also connect to other devices (i.e. printer), it is wifi but it's on the main one, guest wifi is disabled. Network is also configured as private.
This is a weird one.
This is a weird one.
StephenB
Dec 12, 2023Guru - Experienced User
gkvic wrote:
Pinging by IP, the NAS also has had that IP reserved for it for years,
Could there be a duplicate IP address on the network?
Maybe try switching to DHCP on the NAS, and reboot it. Then see if the problem PC can reach the new IP address???
- gkvicDec 18, 2023Aspirant
(have a week old baby at home, so just got around to working on this again)
I'm going to blame it on windows. It randomly started working again.
Thanks for the suggestions!
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