Duh...
Ok, today I got the NAS box I'd orderdd, along with the 4 TB drive that is going in it. (It's got room for a second, but that's *not* going to happen any time soon)
Setup was fairly simple, though at some point I have to configure users and groups. Right now I'm accessing it as admin, and it'll only allow admin to be logged on from one system at a time.
Among other things, it works as a DLNA server. After I started copying files over from the Windoze box I'd been using as a media server, I set up the DLNA server (well, I still need to add more directories as I get them copied over). It was fairly simple.
Then I tried to access it from the bluray player. Which didn't show it. I messed around with the settings. Still no show.
At the same time, I noticed that it showed Kalonia (the Windoze box I'd been using as a media server but couldn't access anything on it).
This has happened before. Something had caused Windoze Media Player to turn off media sharing (and "lose" a bunch of files and folders that were supposed to be shared when I turned it back on). So I assumed it was the same thing and told WMP to add the files again.
This stuff wasted a few hours as I was doing other things at the time.
Finally as I was beginning to wonder if somehow the new box was interfering with the old one. Then I glanced over at the kitchen table where the NAS box was. As well as the gigabit switch and the 10/100 switch I'd had to hook up because the gigabit switch was out of ports. And I saw the ethernet cable I'd unplugged from the gigabit switch to make room for the NAS box. Since it has gigabit ethernet, it needed to go on that switch. I remembered that the cable I'd unplugged was a one that was only doing 100 Mb ethernet. And then I realized that the color of the cable meant it was the one going to the bluray player. which only does 100 Mb wired.
Oh. I'd not plugged it into the 10/1000 switch. I plugged it in and suddenly both the NAS box (Tellus) and the windoze box (kalonia) were showing up ok on the bluray player.
Hence the title of the post. Duh. It works better if it's plugged in.
Setup was fairly simple, though at some point I have to configure users and groups. Right now I'm accessing it as admin, and it'll only allow admin to be logged on from one system at a time.
Among other things, it works as a DLNA server. After I started copying files over from the Windoze box I'd been using as a media server, I set up the DLNA server (well, I still need to add more directories as I get them copied over). It was fairly simple.
Then I tried to access it from the bluray player. Which didn't show it. I messed around with the settings. Still no show.
At the same time, I noticed that it showed Kalonia (the Windoze box I'd been using as a media server but couldn't access anything on it).
This has happened before. Something had caused Windoze Media Player to turn off media sharing (and "lose" a bunch of files and folders that were supposed to be shared when I turned it back on). So I assumed it was the same thing and told WMP to add the files again.
This stuff wasted a few hours as I was doing other things at the time.
Finally as I was beginning to wonder if somehow the new box was interfering with the old one. Then I glanced over at the kitchen table where the NAS box was. As well as the gigabit switch and the 10/100 switch I'd had to hook up because the gigabit switch was out of ports. And I saw the ethernet cable I'd unplugged from the gigabit switch to make room for the NAS box. Since it has gigabit ethernet, it needed to go on that switch. I remembered that the cable I'd unplugged was a one that was only doing 100 Mb ethernet. And then I realized that the color of the cable meant it was the one going to the bluray player. which only does 100 Mb wired.
Oh. I'd not plugged it into the 10/1000 switch. I plugged it in and suddenly both the NAS box (Tellus) and the windoze box (kalonia) were showing up ok on the bluray player.
Hence the title of the post. Duh. It works better if it's plugged in.