can't remember ip address of my NAS - need to log on to it. How do i find the ip?

snow patrol · 1 Dec 2013 at 23:27

Hi all, everything's going wrong today really. My imac's hard drive has apparently died and to top that i just came home to a beeping synology diskstation 8 bay, which means one of the drives needs replacing and the whole thing restoring. Trouble is, i can't remember what ip i need to enter into the address bar to connect to the synology. It's stored as a favourite on my imac, but i can't use that at the moment

I can see the synology in windows explorer on my pc and can access the files but i can't figure out how to enter the user interface and start the rebuild process. I know it's something like 192.168.0.1:5002 but that's not working. So how do i determine the ip address of the NAS? Help very much appreciated, and sorry for being pretty silly with network stuff..

bremen1874 · 1 Dec 2013 at 23:40

Unless it's static you should be able to find it by looking at your router.

If you know its mac address arp -a at the command line may show it.

If it isn't on port 80 you might need to include the http:// before the ip address. It'll depend on the browser.

joey1211 · 2 Dec 2013 at 07:41

Try using netscan

deuse · 2 Dec 2013 at 08:02

Download Synology Assistant http://www.synology.com/en-global/support/download/DS112

Lisapete · 2 Dec 2013 at 08:47

Fing, Angry IP

KIA · 2 Dec 2013 at 12:38

deuse said:
Download Synology Assistant http://www.synology.com/en-global/support/download/DS112

This or look at the router.

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Dec 2013 at 10:26

Angry IP
http://angryip.org/w/Home

or

command = arp -a

Tunney · 5 Dec 2013 at 11:50

Click here.

chaosophy · 7 Dec 2013 at 17:11

Several ways, along with the above.
The default ports should be 5000 for http and 5001 for https. If you can see it in explorer then I assume you can see it as a device under network? If so right click it and either 'view device web page' or 'properties' to see the details. If you can see it I also guess it is showing the name of the device? So with the port you should just be able to use that in the address bar. Or open a command window and try pinging it.