Question : NAS drive setup

Hi i have recently purchased a network hard-drive enclosue and added a 80GB HDD in it. The exact enclosure can be found at http://www.a-tecsubsystem.com/websys/atec/web/products.jsp?prodId=1191910612953 . This particular model offers the ability to have the NAS drive act as the DHCP server via its web interface. There's also a post about it here >> http://icablog.org/2007/01/landisk-network-drives/

My ISP is Be Broadband UK, they offer static IP address configuration as standard.

Problem i'm having is setting up the NAS drive as the DHCP server and my router (also known as BeBox) to correctly route info and offer access to the web for my 2 PC's.

So far i have spokent o Be technical support and though they did try to help they eventually gave up as we didn't resolve the problem. What we did was change over the IP settings in TCP/IP properties to "Obtain Automatically" for the network controller on PC1.

Via the web interface for the NAS drive i have enabled DHCP and entered the details provided by Be tech support to static details: IP:78.86.175.67 Mask:255.255.240.0 Gateway: 78.86.160.1 with DNS: 87.194.255.154

On the BeBox via its web interface i was told to change the IP Config Mode to Multi 4-port which is essentially a mode that makes the router into a bridge and thus disables DHCP on it.

So i have DHCP disabledo on the BeBox, but enabled on the NAS drive, both PCs have their network controllers set to "Obtain Auto" but i no longer am able to access the web or even my BeBox (whereas before i simply used to type in 192.168.1.254 and enter user details). There is the ability to hard-reset the BeBox if i really need to, but at the moment i just don't know how to progress from here.

When Be provided me with the static IP details as mentioned above, they are obviously meant to host a single PC, 1 static IP = 1 PC. What i am hoping to achieve is to have NAS drive exclusively hosted under the static IP (so i may access it via FTP on teh web) and it assigns the other computers on the network PC1 & PC2 their individual IP address using its built-in DHCP server. I'm not sure if this can be done however, but then doesn't that make the NAS drive pointless if it doesn't?

When i think about it logically though, the BeBox is kind of made redundant as its now just acting like a bridge and therefore even though there's another 2 computers connected to it they cannot access web because its the NAS drive that is controlling DHCP!

Im confused, i obviously don't understand netwoking very well and hope you can help or explain a little, sorry its so long, i wanted ot be sure i covered everything... i run XP Pro. Thanks

I think the problem

Answer : NAS drive setup

the unknown MAC address (00:90:d0...) has address ... 78.86.160.1 is your default gateway (needed to access the internet... its name is not published..)


Don't add a new service, FTP is port 21, but needs extra handling because it has more channels at different ports for the data transfer. So you need to use the EXISTING Fftp, and in the Device box select your NAS.