DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

can you access the configuration directly by typing the ip address in a browser? Everything the easy utility does can be done manually. The utility justs presents a GUI to do it in

If I'm not mistaken the default is DHCP - so chances are the DNS-323 is not at 192.168.0.32.

Turn it off using the front panel button, turn it back on and as soon as the button stops flashing, check your router's attached devices list for an entry with a MAC address mathching that of your DNS-323 (it should be on the bottom) and try that address in the browser.

Followed the instruction given on the bottom of the DNS-323, access via http://dlink-xxxxxx (where xxxxxx = mac address last 6 digits) doesn't help also.

can you ping it?

Start > Run > cmd

in the command window type

ping 192.168.0.32 and see if you get a reply. If not then the ip of the DNS-323 is not the default.

The best thing you can do so you can find it is to set the ip address static on the DNS.  From the sounds of your description, the DNS is getting one assigned by dhcp from the router.  The dns only goes tot he default 192.168.0.32 if there is no dhcp server.  By setting static, you avaoid having the address change on you.

souwalker wrote:

Can't the 323 be given an ip address outside of the router range?
Rgds

That would depend on how you define "router range".

Most residential networks use a class c network address range - which allows up to 254 hosts - for example 192.168.0.1~192.168.0.254.  You need to use an address with that network range to communicate with the DNS-323, so no, you cannot use an ip address outside of the network address range.

Some routers use that entire range for DHCP and some don't - those that don't will typically use the last 154 addresses for the DHCP lease pool - for example 192.168.0.101~192.168.0.254, in which case you can (and should) use an address between 2 and 100 (192.168.0.2~192.168.0.100), so that it is outside of the router's DHCP lease pool.

Just in case you're curious as to why I started with 2 (192.168.0.2) - in most cases the router is at 1 (192.168.0.1) - this is not mandatory, I have seen one manufacturer who prefers to use .254 (192.168.0.254).

So which "router range" were you referring to?

That should work fine - however - if the router was already excluding the .2~.100 range (this is known as an exclusion range) you could just as easily have selected a static address in that range, rather than further reducing the DHCP lease pool.

Assuming that your network will never have more than 53 hosts (154-101), you should be just fine.

Leebros,

As a noob to DNS 323 and just two weeks into using it I can tell you that the most common problem with access from other PC's has been firewalls.  Zone alarm in particular gave me a lot of grief even after setting the NAS address in the trusted zone.  I suggest next time you try to set up access from your lap top that you disable temporarily any firewall to prevent any blocking.  After ensuring the link works you can run the firewall and see what happens.