Connecting WD MyBook (WhiteLight) TB drive via Router ** fixed**

[Jay Ridgley]

On 07/22/2018 01:42 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> 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
> 
Good Morning,

I reset the WD MyBook to factory default and was able to get a 
connection established.

Thanks,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
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