Re: ReadyNas 526x - Cannot access and re map drive
Yes, apologies.
192.168.1.2
What is odd, I cannot open and control the RN via RAIDar. I can see it but I cannot access/open it to config. Is there a roundabout way to view the IP?
Chances are, it's not, being either a 192.168.0.x or 10.x.x.x, and that is your problem. All devices must be in the same sub-net to connect to each other. Assigning a static IP is a bad idea precisely because of what just happened to you. It is much better to reserve an IP address for the NAS in your router.
Perform an OS re-install on the NAS (NOT a factory default). That will also change the IP selection to DHCP but will not harm your data (but accidently doing a factory default instead will).
Go into the router interface and change it's subnet to 192.168.1.x (often shown as 192.168.1.0/24 or 192.168.1.0 with a network mask of 255.255.255.0). You may or may not have to re-start the router and devices connected to it.
After you have done this, then go into the router interface and reserve an IP address for your NAS and again re-start the NAS. If you want to assign an address that's already taken, you'll have to turn the other device off or disconnect it from the network before you can. Turning it off is better so there is no possibility of conflict when you re-connect it.
If your PC already has an IP in the 192.168.1.x range, then you have a different issue. I doubt that's the case, but if it is, come back with more details and we'll try again.
Yes. So the PC IP address is 10.0.0.83. The way the addresses work is that the PC can connect to any local device using a 10.0.0.x address (so any address in between 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.254).
But your NAS IP address is 192.168.1.2 - which is not in the correct range. This happened because at some point in the past you set the NAS to use a static (fixed) IP address of 192.168.1.2. And that address is not compatible with your new router settings.
As @Sandshark says, you have two fairly easy ways to fix this.
One is to go into your router settings, and change the LAN internet addresses to 192.168.1.x instead of 10.0.0.x. After you do that, you will probably need to reboot the PC and any other devices you have connected to the router. Then you will be able to access the NAS. The first thing you should do at that point is change the NAS network setting to use DHCP.
The second way is to do an OS reinstall from the front panel. See pages 137-138 here for instructions:
disable volume quota (which you can re-enable on the volume settings wheel).
After you regain access, you can then go back into your router settings and tell the router to always give the NAS the same IP address. Some routers call that "IP reservation", others call it "Mac reservation", or even "AARP binding". If you can tell us the router manufacturer and model, we can probably find the user guide which would allow us to give more more specific steps.
The benefit of assigning the IP address in the router is that it will prevent your issue from happening again the next time you change to a new router.
