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| Hi! Guys, I hope that someone can help me as I'm at my wits end. I have a Fujitsu Scenic P with a Pentium 4 2.93GHz and 1 M of Ram. I connect to the internet (SKY) through a Sagem ADSL router. Up until now I have had no problems with my connections. I recently purchased 2 Mediasonic NCIS HD9-SU2LAH NAS drives each containing a 250G Philips SATA HD. I set these up following the instructions (in very poor English) and connected them to my system through a Netgear GS608 router. I had no problem accessing the drives and copied over some files as a test. I did find that some files seemed to have dissapeared on the way. The following day when I booted my system I was unable to acess the Internet. I tried unplugging the drives and after a boot up was able to access the internet again. I then tried plugging the drives in again, same problem, unable to access the net. I tried plugging them straight into the Sagem but with no effect. On looking at my Directory Opus I was able to see the discs and their contents. I though I would double check the set up of the drives but IE could not find them. The drives came with a utility to find the drive's IP adresses and I found that the IP's had changed from 192.168.0.2 & 192.168.0.3 to 169.254.01 & 169.254.02. Again Tried to access get the set up pages through IE but with no luck. Tried a factory reset on both drives but now I can find only one under IP 169.254.01. Can anyone out ther kindly help me while i still have some hair left. Any help would be greatjy appreciated Robert
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the 169.254 addresses you are getting are called apipa which means that your computer is set to receive a dhcp ip address but for whatever reason it cannot connect or a dhcp server/dhcp router. so for some reason it may be that when you connect the nas to the network it is somehow stopping everything else from seeing the dhcp server. Or it might just be a coincidence
Regards
Dale (MBCS,MCDST,(MCP 271,272,270,290)A+,ITIL v3 F,DSE Assessor)
www.dales-diary.blogspot.com
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From their webstore http://tinyurl.com/3kddyu "The interactive web control panel is very user friendly, even the most novice user can set up a file server in a matter of minutes."
I take it you don't agree? 
From the specifications it says it has a DHCP server built in, you'll want to turn that off.
Try setting a fixed IP address.
Look at the DHCP pool of your router and make them outside of that range.
Dave R
XP Pro + various VMs: Q6600 @ stock, Asus V3-P5G33, 2GB DDR2 800, 7600GT
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| Hi! Thanks Gents for your help. I have managed to tame one of the beasts, the other is doing an impression of a mule - but I'll get there in the end Thanks again Robert
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