Lost contact with my NAS after changing its IP

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Published on 2009-08-18T10:14:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 4:43 UTC
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I did some brain-dead reconfiguring of my D-Link DNS-323 NAS some days ago. I have a home network where each computer gets a dynamically allocated IP address starting at 192.168.1.100.

The irritating point (for me at least) was that the NAS changed IP if the power went down or I turned off the router. I then had to remap a drive-letter to point to the new IP address of the NAS.

To remedy that I configured the NAS to have a static IP, 192.168.0.10. I had no good reason to choose that IP, other than I found it in a user manual for the NAS.

After I changed the IP and rebooted the NAS it disappeared from the network and was never to be found again.

Now I have a black brick standing in my home, looking good, but "dead".

Could anyone point me in a direction which helps me solve this problem? I have about 100gb worth of pic of my children on this brick so I really want it back :-)

Sincerely,

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