Thanks Jon for the quick reply On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 at 22:28, John Hearns <hear...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How are you connecting the Lacie NAS to your network? > Are you connecting it via a small switch or directly into the back of your > wireless router via an ethernet cable? > In this case the LAcie device should get an DHCP address.
Right! I should try to connect to the router. It will be slowish but better than nothing. > If you are connecting it directly to the ethernet port on the USB-C adapter > then take note of this from the device manual: > > Most home and office routers are DHCP servers, meaning that your device will > automatically receive an IP address once it is connected to the network. If a > network is not DHCP-managed, the LaCie storage device will use APIPA > (automatic private IP addressing) to assign itself a valid IP address within > the existing network. In some cases, it will assign itself an IP address > following the rule 169.254.xxx.yyy/24. And this exactly what I'm doing. > So it is using bonjour/zeroconf to allocate an address to itself. I am not > that expert on using zeroconf with Ubuntu, sorry. Well at least I know what to search for and start from there. Cheers Davide -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
