On 25/05/2010, Eric Featherstone <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I suspect that most late NICs will auto configure when connected device to device via a regular cable too, the link light is the key to determine physical connectivity status. > 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. I suspect that this is the issue, in the case of no DHCP server available the TCP/IP settings would have to be temporarily set manually. You could get away setting only the IP address and Subnet mask fields on the network setting for the two computers. Set the IP addresses one different in the fourth octet, ie 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 and set the Subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 I assume that you've achieved what you set out to do by this stage but at least if a similar problem arises you will have less cause to have to ear bash a tech ;-) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
