Re: Networked hard drive

John Wendel wrote:

Anne Wilson wrote:

I've bought a drive with usb and network connection. I used the usb to quickly transfer a large quantity of data, but intended putting it onto the network after that. The blurb on the box said it would just pick an ip by dhcp. However, it seems to me that I need to know something about it in order to mount it, and I've got a total blank on where to go next. Nothing appears in /var/log/messages.

I've told the router to reserve an address for it and made an entry in /etc/hosts. Since I can't see any sign of it being recognised I haven't a clue how to mount it. Any ideas?

Anne

Could you tell us the brand/model of the disk? At least we'll know what to avoid buying.

Thanks,

John

Bryan