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Hi
I have a macbook and am trying to set up a small wired/wireless network at home. I am trying to wire my macbook through a gigabit switch with the router and a Nas D-Link 323 also attached to the switch. There will also be a PC which will be wireless and does not need access to the D-Link.
I can connect to the internet ok and have the pc working wirelessly too however I am at a loss as to how to get the mac talking to the Nas. The lights are all on on the switch but I cant figure out what I need to do to get the D-Link to talk to the mac. I am using cat 5 cables. If I log into the router the D-link shows up as an attached device with an ip address and a mac address.
Can anyone help? I have a feeling that I should be doing something in the network settings but I don't know what. Please can anyone help I am really struggling with this?
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There are several ways to wire this as you have a router (which I assume has 4 ports) and also the switch. Let's use them all though.
Network can be as follows
Router -> Switch -> Mac
Switch -> NAS
Set the NAS to have a static ip range outside of the router DHCP range (again I am assuming you are using DHCP on the router). This static address will then allow you to find the NAS any time you want. Make sure that the NAS workgroup name is the same as your network group name.
Now I do not know how a MAC does it but on windows you would map a drive to the ip address of the nas or its name if you browse the network and the Volume_1 folder.
On my network I've mapped L:\ to \\dlink323\Volume_1 and my music drive M:\ is at \\dlink323\Volume_1\Music.
You can use the NAS configuration wizard to do most of this for you.
Hope this helps.
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