...and it has vanished. Tried it last night and couldn't see it on the network, and only one of the lights on the network port is lit?

I'm going to have it in bits in a few days, to solder a VGA port to the mainboard and hook it up to a monitor; so I can play with some linux options for the OS.

In my experience one light on a network port is 'this wire is electrically connected to something at both ends' and the other is 'there's some data being transmitted'. With most network devices I'd expect to see some flashing on the second if the first is lit, even if it doesn't seem to be available on the network- broadcast packets and the like.

Somewhat curious, yes.

Idiot question of the day - did you say it had two network ports? You know what I'm about to suggest...

LOL

The thing is.. I had it running, backed up a bunch of data and then shutdown for the night. The following day, I just switched it all back on - no moving things around or unplugging anything in between. It just didn't work.

But I did try the other port anyway.

It does have DHCP on the NAS, so I'll have a look at that.


No, the switch is only on the RouStor variants of the N5200. Mine just has the WAN and LAN ports.[/quote]
Be careful. On the main network, you can only have one dhcp server active, so you will need to enable it and unplug it straight away (before another device tries to get a new address lease) and you will need to switch off the DHCP before you put it back onto the main network.

Try right clicking your wired NIC and disabling it, then re-enable it.