On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Steve R wrote:
> > At 4:26 PM -0700 1/28/09, Bruce Johnson posted: >> I just got a VOX NM1 enclosure only, from Geeks.com for $24, another >> $70 for a 500G drive and I had a NAS system up and running pretty >> quickly. >> >> <http://www.voxproducts.com/mn1.php> >> >> Geeks doesn't seem to have it anymore. >> >> It's strictly a SMB file server, but I've been able to connect >> multiple macs to it simultaneously. >> >> Documentation is full of the usual Chinese-to-English through the >> 'Fish stragenesses, but they give equal weight to both Macs and PC's, >> wonder of wonders. >> >> It doesn't always show up in the network browser, for some reason, >> not >> sure where the problem lies, but since I gave it a fixed address on >> my >> cable router, I can mount the volume, drag it to start-up items in >> accounts and it comes right up. > > > Bruce, since you worked with a Chinese manual.... ;-) Things were > going along well last night, I was able to access via Finder/Server > having set a few users/Group, then I lost connection and wasn't able > to connect from that point onwards. Are you using the DLink one? I don't know...mine was accessible via a web browser, and once I figured out the rather sparse interface (see all that time spent on the puzzles in Myst did pay off!) it was pretty straight forward. I had to format the drive, then create a shared folder on it. This appears to the Mac (using a smb:// mount in finder) as a network volume. IN the web interface I had the ability to add passwords and user names, etc, no need to in my case. The DLink looks like it has a web-based setup, too. What happens when you point your web browser at the IP address you've given it? In my case when I first plugged mine in, I had to get to the interface for my wireless router, which is providing DHCP for my home LAN to find connected devices. The Vox is named(by default) something like Store-NNNN where NNNN is the last four bytes of the MAC address which is printed on the sticker on the bottom according to the manual. Fortunately, I know what's on my network, because the sticker wasn't there!) Once I identified the device on the router, I went to that address in my web browser, and set a fixed IP address in the interface on the VOX (see your router documentation to see how this is done. On my Netgear router, you enter each device with an IP somewhere in the devices address range, in others, Linksys I know for sure, there is a range of addresses reserved for fixed IP addresses, and you have to keep track of them.) Then as I said, I formatted the drive, created a shared folder, and that was all I needed to make it visible on the Mac; I didn't add any user mapping stuff. What I would do is reset it to the factory defaults. On the Vox, there's a pinhole through which you press a switch to reset stuff or a button in the web setup screens, The DLink web interface has a setting there to reset all. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
