Can no longer use a browser to connect to my FreeNAS server

[DaveR]

Problem: I can no longer use a browser to connect to my FreeNAS server. Now I get a “Page Can’t Be Displayed” error in the browser. Win7 reports that the “remote device won’t accept the connection.”

Background: A local computer shop set up a FreeNAS server for me a week ago, using the most recent version of FreeNAS. Server is a Dell Vostro. File system is CIFS. The FreeNAS server is visible on my Win7 network map; I can read and write to the drive using Win Explorer; I can ping the IP address assigned to the FreeNAS server.

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To clarify . . . the URL used to work. Now it doesn't. One thing that changed: I set up the server using a laptop. Now I am using a desktop computer. But neither can connect to the server now.

 

[gpsguy]

What URL do you use to connect to your server? It should be: http://***.***.***.***/, where ***.***.***.*** is the IP address.

If you connect it to a monitor, does it display the IP address that you're using? Are there any error messages on the console?

 

[DaveR]

Thanks, gpsguy. The URL is in the format you described. I'll hook a monitor to the FreeNAS server tomorrow.

 

[pirateghost]

unless you had a static IP on that server, when you plugged in using the temporary server, you got one IP from DHCP (because dhcp addresses are handed out to your MAC), and when you plugged in the permanent server, it got a different IP

 

[DaveR]

Thanks gpsguy & pirateghost. All I had to do was reconnect the monitor instead of waving my arms around ;-) I found the new IP and all is well. Issue solved.

 

[gpsguy]

Glad to hear you have it working again.

Do yourself a favor and configure the NIC with a static IP address. Should you turn it off in the future, you'll know what the IP address is, when you start it up again.