NAS Access on Micro A1

[abalaban]

Offtopic..
You maybe able to answer another question, I have one router connected to another. How can I get something on the secondary router to see my server on the primary router.
Anything connected to my secondary router cant see devices connected on the primary router.

Offtopic you said ?? You have two routers connected to each others working on the *same* subnet ?? You are kidding, you are using the same address range but each router manages a subset of this range, doesn't it ?

If not then that may very well be the reason of all your troubles...

[Christopher Follett]

Offtopic..
You maybe able to answer another question, I have one router connected to another. How can I get something on the secondary router to see my server on the primary router.
Anything connected to my secondary router cant see devices connected on the primary router.

Offtopic you said ?? You have two routers connected to each others working on the *same* subnet ?? You are kidding, you are using the same address range but each router manages a subset of this range, doesn't it ?

If not then that may very well be the reason of all your troubles...

Yep same subnet, .
Routers work flawless, just I cant see devices attached to my primary one (including my nas).

I suppose an easy way around it, would be to use same subnet, dhcp. Set the primary router to 1.1 to 98, then set secondary router to 1.99 to 254.
This way they should co-exist and allow everything attached to both routers to see each other.

[Daedalus]

Another thing to check is if the secondary router is connected to the primary using its LAN or WAN ports. If it's using its WAN port it may have all the required ports firewalled off. Try setting up a firewall rule to allow all requests on all ports straight through and see if that works. Also, I've come across some routers which don't like having the WAN and LAN sides on the same subnet (my Cisco router refuses to work like this), so this might also cause you issues unless all the subnet masks allow access to the other subnet (and again, my router has problems with this...) Alternatively, try connecting using the LAN side of the secondary router and using the IP address of the primary as the gateway and DNS. You're on the right track with the same subnet and different IP ranges I reckon...

[Christopher Follett]

Another thing to check is if the secondary router is connected to the primary using its LAN or WAN ports. If it's using its WAN port it may have all the required ports firewalled off. Try setting up a firewall rule to allow all requests on all ports straight through and see if that works. Also, I've come across some routers which don't like having the WAN and LAN sides on the same subnet (my Cisco router refuses to work like this), so this might also cause you issues unless all the subnet masks allow access to the other subnet (and again, my router has problems with this...) Alternatively, try connecting using the LAN side of the secondary router and using the IP address of the primary as the gateway and DNS. You're on the right track with the same subnet and different IP ranges I reckon...

I have secondary connected to primary through LAN port, on ip 192.168.1.3 (so secondary has assigned ip by primary), on secondary it assigns ip's as 192.168.2.2 - 254.
I think this is why WAN cant see stuff on primary router.

Its all learning, . Will play around with it some more once I get chance.

[nbache]

I have secondary connected to primary through LAN port, on ip 192.168.1.3 (so secondary has assigned ip by primary), on secondary it assigns ip's as 192.168.2.2 - 254.
I think this is why WAN cant see stuff on primary router.

Quite likely. You have in fact set up two separate subnets.

Is there any special reason to use two routers? I would just replace the secondary one with a switch, so all your devices are on the same subnet and all get addresses in the 192.168.1.x range.

Best regards,

Niels

[Christopher Follett]

I have secondary connected to primary through LAN port, on ip 192.168.1.3 (so secondary has assigned ip by primary), on secondary it assigns ip's as 192.168.2.2 - 254.
I think this is why WAN cant see stuff on primary router.

Quite likely. You have in fact set up two separate subnets.

Is there any special reason to use two routers? I would just replace the secondary one with a switch, so all your devices are on the same subnet and all get addresses in the 192.168.1.x range.

Best regards,

Niels

My street is flooded with all fancy routers, so its hard to get good connection all round my house.
So two routers is only answer. My original SuperHUB, let you setup three seperate wireless networks at the same time.
Had to dump that cause they screwed up the firmware, over a year now and still waiting for a fix, .

[abalaban]

@Chris

Did you finally find a solution to your problem?

[Christopher Follett]

@Chris

Did you finally find a solution to your problem?

I will proberly do what I said.
Set main router to assign 192.168.1.1 to 98, then tell second router to have an ip of 192.168.1.99 (Static) and disable DHCP.
It should allow me to see everthing then.

I have this working in this config somewhere else, so it should work at home to.
So second router is basically a wired /wireless AP that taps into main router.

[Christopher Follett]

Ok,

Cracked this, .

Connect computer to second router only (e.g. nothing else is connected via lan / wan ports, only the computer) on the WAN port.
Then login to it 192.168.x.1.
Assign your second wireless router a static ip (e.g. 192.168.1.3), I told my first wireless router to force .3 so nothing else took the address.
Then setup everything else you want to do on second router (ignoring LAN setup).
Then in LAN setup, turn off DHCP.

Now, disconnect computer ethernet cable from wan port.
Connect your first routers ethernet cable to the first lan port on the second router.
Thats it. By putting the ethernet cable into the lan port, it puts the second router into an access point type mode (e.g. it bypasses the WAN of second router).
Anything that connects to second router via wire or wireless gets assigned ip on first router and can see all, .