Netgear NAS Incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.68


I am not good with computers, but I need to store a large part of my collection for space reasons. I bought a Netgear NAS (RAID, 3 TB) and it won't recognize my MacBook.
I will try it with a Windows laptop tomorrow when I bring one home from my office, but in my experience, if something doesn't work with Mac, and is suppossedly with Mac, Linnux and Windows, it won't work with anything.
I am tempted to ship back the NAS, but does anyone have any useful suggestions?
richardfinegold

Showing 1 response by jkorten

A couple of issues you should know about. Apple computers don't behave well on a network when roused from sleep (they want to keep the same IP address it seems) and the DHCP server has to re-initiate connections. If you have a copy operation to the NAS and it is configured to have a dynamic IP address you're uck-fayed. Configure the NAS for a static IP address and also configure your music server with a static address too.

Then on my "readynas" device (old) the most recent firmware upgrade destroyed the ability to be recognized by windoze and I had to downgrade the firmware in order to keep it working. Please check the 'net for any discussion forums about your particular server on this topic.