IP address

[Mike Zahorik]

I'm new to FreeNAS. I bulit a computer special for FreeNAS and got it to work. In fact the system has been working great for the last month or so. I have various Windows and Ubuntu system around the house that all share this file system. Today, for some reason all the remote computers lost connection to the server. After a little looking around I found that the FreeNas machine had changed it's IP address and I don't know why. After correcting the IP address at all the remote machines everything is working fine again. I didn't do anything to the FreeNAS machine and I can't seem to find anything work with it. This is rather inconvenient and I hope it doesn't happen again. Has this occured to anyone else? One point to be made is that I turn off the FreeNAS machine each night, because no one uses the machine at night. Could this have had something to do with the IP address change? Thanks

 

[moosport]

If you did not define a static IP for your freenas server, when the router renew the lease a new IP may be issued.

 

[pirateghost]

FreeNAS is not responsible for basic comprehension of a network. As mentioned, if you DO NOT assign a static IP to your FreeNAS, then you will be allocated a new IP from your router every time you reboot it.

This is basic networking, and has nothing to do with FreeNAS. You need to configure a static IP OR tell your router to maintain the static connection for you. There are many ways to handle this, it is up to you to understand YOUR network though.

 

[Mike Zahorik]

OK, thanks for the info. Being relatively ignorant of many network things, I have to ask. But with your help and guidance I'll get it. Give me a chance and I'll figure out how to do what you have told me. Thanks Mike

 

[pirateghost]

The problem with trying to help you out is that you dont seem to know what you have. Since it is not a FreeNAS issue, you will need to begin reading up on basic networking, subnets, dhcp, ip addressing, etc. Start with looking at your ROUTER configuration and get a feel for it. We cant hold your hand through the process, you must take some initiative and learn it yourself

 

[Mike Zahorik]

Maybe so. Give me a chance.

 

[pirateghost]

?? give you a chance?

log into your router and figure out the configuration options on that.

learn what IP you can set statically to your FreeNAS

we cant do it for you

 

[Stephens]

I think he means give him a chance to see if he can intelligently apply any assistance he receives rather than washing our hands of him because of his lack of (networking) knowledge. That said, it's good to know everything pirateghost outlined. It's also possible to get up and running with stability without completely understanding them.

Mike: What IP address does your NAS currently have? What make/model router do you have? What's the LAN (not WAN) IP address of the router? It will probably look something like 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.254. If you go into the router settings, what's the DHCP range set to?

Those questions should be enough to get you going. Once you figure out what your DHCP range is, you'll pick an IP for the NAS that is outside the DHCP range and isn't in use by any other device on the network. You will statically define FreeNAS to use that IP address. You can find out how to do that if you don't know by reading the FreeNAS documentaiton. You'll tell all your devices to find FreeNAS at that location and you'll (essentially) be done.