HELP WITH MAC ADDRESS

Posted by: The Meerkat on 12 April 2012

Please can anyone help ?

 

Just got my new Unitiserve SSD. My Browsers (Chrome and Safari) will not accept the MAC address. I am putting in NSSRV followed by the last four characters. (Without the colons) Tried it in uppercase, lower case, tried putting http:// before it as well. Browser does not recognise the address! 

 

Anyone help please

 

David

Posted on: 12 April 2012 by Reality

I don't know about Unitiserves, but until someone else comes along............

 

How about if your put in the IP address? This is the usual method, using a browser, rather than MAC address.

Does this show any connectivity?

 

Can you ping the device, ensuring basic connectivity on the network?

Open a command prompt and type:

ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

(where xxx = IP address, e.g. 192.168.0.10, etc)

It would be a good step to ensure basic connectivity.

 

There is also a desktop program for accessing it.

I believe it's available for download from the Naim website?

Posted on: 12 April 2012 by The Meerkat

Thanks for the reply. Where will I find the IP address? Sorry, 'Ping'? Please can you explain.

 

Thanks

 

David

Posted on: 12 April 2012 by Reality

It seems your original description is correct:

nssrvXXXX(mac)

 

You are omitting the colons from the "part" Mac address, appended to the nssrv "part"?

i.e http://NSSRV5E6F rather than http://NSSRV5E:6F

 

Sorry I can't be of any great help here, as I said earlier, I don't know the device, other than the documentation available to all. I am familiar with networking though.

Just thought I may be able to throw out an idea or two, while you await the assistance of a more knowledgeable member

Posted on: 12 April 2012 by The Meerkat

Yes I was omitting the colons. Putting nssrv followed by the last four characters.

 

ALL SORTED NOW...The IP address worked immediately. Phew!

 

Thank you everyone

Posted on: 12 April 2012 by Reality

Glad it worked

 

I would have thought that in order to connect by hostname, one would first need to add the IP address and hostname details to the "hosts" file (in Windows)?

 

It may just take a while for the hostname/IP match info to propagate through your network.

 

You can permanently add it to the hosts file though.