At 9:39 AM -0700 1/29/09, Bruce Johnson posted: > 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.
I've been at this most of the day and into the night, resetting several times, reformatting twice and although I can get into the D-Link interface same as yesterday, I still can't get the drive to mount to create shared folders. It came up in Finder and each time I clicked on it, it disappeared again. I'm going to resort to having my PC friend use the Easy Find Application on his computer to set up sharing, and hope I don't have to install Windows to maintain the drive. It's a nice enclosure, quiet as a mouse, with pretty blue lights so I'm willing to live with a little formatting problem ;-) Steve R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
