Connecting WD MyBook (WhiteLight) TB drive via Router

[Colin Law]

On 22 July 2018 at 19:42, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

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

How was it assigned a static IP?  If you had somehow configured the drive
to use a static IP then you will need to undo that.  If, however, you had
configured your old router to give it a fixed IP via DHCP then when it is
connected to the new router it should be given a new address.


>
> 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.
>

I don't understand that statement.  The router does not 'recognise' the
MyBook.  If the drive asks for an IP address then the router should give it
one, if it doesn't then it won't.


>
> 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...
>

If the drive has somehow been configured to not use DHCP, or if it has a
bug and has become confused, then that will probably fix it.

You still haven't told us which particular model the drive is.

Colin
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