Router failed - how to access NAS?

danlightbulb · 2 Sep 2018 at 09:07

Hi all

My Virgin Superhub failed and it will be Tuesday before i get a replacement. I can no longer access the NAS drive I had connected to it.

I tried connecting it directly to my PC but it didnt work. Is there a way, and if so could someone explain in simple language how to set it up please?

Thanks.

danlightbulb · 2 Sep 2018 at 11:27

andy_mk3 said:
Is your nas set up with a static ip or not? If so you can give your pc a static ip too and make a direct connection

I dont know, and i dont know how to find out or what settings to change to see if this works. Ive no knowledge of networking.

The NAS is a WD my cloud. I just plugged it into the superhub out of the box and on my PC i mapped a network drive to it.

danlightbulb · 2 Sep 2018 at 20:22

I get a new router tuesday, just annoying as i keep important files on there. Rather silly that what is essentially an external hard drive cant be directly plugged in to pc.

danlightbulb · 4 Sep 2018 at 22:17

Got the new superhub today so all back up and running. Its given the NAS an IP address of 192.168.0.10 which is different to the previous one because i had to amend the shortcuts id created to access it. If i make it static (i can see an option for this in the mycloud settings page) what IP address should i force it to?

danlightbulb · 5 Sep 2018 at 15:03

Once it has a static IP, is it just a case of plugging it into the pc ethernet port then, to access it?