Connecting WD MyBook (WhiteLight) TB drive via Router

[Jay Ridgley]

On 07/22/2018 07:17 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 06:56:03AM -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I have recently moved from a system based firewall/server to a router.
>>
>> Router is a Belkin N600DB wireless router. I have been able to get
>> everything up with the exception of my MyBook (worked before as a dedicated
>> host using NFS to access it). The router fails to find it when I plug the
>> network cable directly into the router.
>>
>> What am I missing...
>>
>> Belkin claims no support for Linux. Suggested I try one of the other two
>> popular OS. Problem is I have access to neither of them...
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with a Cinnamon desktop and am up to date with
>> all updates.
>>
> It sounds as if you might have set a static IP for the MyBook which
> isn't on the same subnet as the network set up by the router.
> 
> Or, was the MyBook set up to provide DHCP before?
> 
Chris, Colin and Gene Thanks,

The MyBook was indeed assigned a static IP on my old network and that 
address is not now a part of my current network.

The MyBook is not recognized by the router like my other systems were 
even though all originally had static addresses. The computers were 
converted to DHCP connections but the MyBook was not.

Gene, I do not want to change the router, if there is another way...

I wonder if resetting the MyBook to factory defaults would cause it to 
respond to DHCP...

Cheers,
Jay

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