Setting up NAS drive

330d

I have bought a NAS enclosure from ebay, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110552594353&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Also bought a 160gb hard drive. Can anyone guide me on how to set it up? Is it as simple as connecting it to the router and my laptop and pc will find it automatically?

Thanks

weegie.geek

PC won't find it automatically nope. It'll probably have a web control panel at http://192.168.0.6 or a similar address. Via that you'll be able to format it etc.

Then you'll mount it as a network drive in windows.

330d

Thanks, how do i find the ip address of the drive?

Secondly, how do i mount it on windows 7?


Sorry if these questions are really childish, but im new to networking.

weegie.geek

Your router will assign it using DHCP most likely. You'll find the IP address in the router's setup pages.

As for mounting, in my computer there's a button under the address bar labelled map network drive. That's what you want.

330d

Thanks, when mounting and entering folder name, will i enter IP OF DRIVE followed by folder name?

e.g. 192.168.1.2/documents

KillerWatt

imr4n wrote: »

Thanks, when mounting and entering folder name, will i enter IP OF DRIVE followed by folder name?

e.g. 192.168.1.2/documents

You need to use a backslash eg, [URL="file://\\192.168.1.2\documents"]\\192.168.1.2\documents[/URL]

330d

Cheers, so i want to share everything on the hard drive, i presume i just type the IP in and this will share the whole drive?

Also do i need to map it once or on every laptop that i want to access the nas drive?

weegie.geek

Yep, every machine will need the drive mounted.

330d

Thanks, seems straight forward. Just need to enter the IP address and mount the whole drive.

The most tricky part will be to locate the IP for the NAS drive.

spud17

I have one very similar, £10 from ebuyer, the default IP address was in the instruction book, 169.254.0.1.

You have looked at the instructions?

spud17

One thing I forgot to mention, if it's like mine and uses Samba Shares (hope that's right), then Win 7 will not play with it on the network i.e. you *probably* wont be able to see it as you do shared folders in the normal manner.

But you can access it through your browser as previous posts.

You can use it as an external hard drive via usb, which partly defeats the object.

Also it is formatted Fat32, so max of 4GB file size.