That may well be the problem, did you get a link light at either end? 10 & 100 Mbit twisted pair is rather like RS232 in that for direct device-device (e.g. PC, NAS) connections you need a crossover cable (likewise for direct hub-hub or switch-switch connections) and for device-hub or device-switch connections you use a normal cable. Later ((last 5 years maybe?) 10/100 switches often had one or more auto-sensing ports so you can get away with normal cables. I believe gigabit ethernet has auto-sensing built-in to the spec.
It occurs to me that there's another possible problem with you trying a direct connection like that. Even if you had a crossover cable or auto-sensing ports such that you had a link light, if either your PC or NAS gets its IP address dynamically from a DHCP server elsewhere on your network with the direct connection that server is cut-out of the circuit, so no IP address and the two devices won't see each other. No matter, as long as you have a solution that works though! On 24 May 2010 21:10, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > directly from NAS to PC. Crossover cable? Sounds like it's back to rs232... > I'll just leave it to run over the wifi thing now - I can't be bothered > trying to find a one-off proper solution. > > Bob > >> >> Did you make the ethernet connection directly from NAS to PC, >> or via a hub/switch? And if directly did you remember to use >> a crossover cable? -- Eric -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
