Lost a disk on my network!!

Malt_Vinegar

Malt_Vinegar

Malt_Vinegar

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I made a bit of an error!

I added a Lacie big disk to my network, its sat on my desk, and im using it as a semi portable network storage device to store cd images.

However, i have lost its IP address! I cant find it via spice works, searched by mac address and serial number. I need to find its IP address (was set to a fixed IP), and document it. When i connect to it via USB it just gets assigned a new address via dhcp, which i cant connect to, to launch the web-interface :(

Any ideas??
 
We have a Lacie NAS device at our work and there is a tool on Lacie website to allow reconfiguring of the IP address. So I would suggest a trip to Lacie's site and hopefully you will find a similar tool for your big disk.

If all else fails there must be some way to totally reset the unit but that might involve clearing all the drives so I would investigate what this involves before going down this route.
 
If you know what range it was in (eg 192.168.0.X) then you could connect it to your pc via the network cable, set your NIC to a similar address (eg. 192.168.0.1) and then ping the broadcast address (192.168.0.255) any device on the end will then reply to this.

example:
Code: 
Pinging 192.168.0.255 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.26: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.26: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.26: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
is my print server
 
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