[tomthedrummer1992]

Hi guys,

So I connect to the Internet on my desktop through wireless. This then plugs into a linksys wireless router, which plugs into out ADSL modem/router which then goes to the outside world.

So, I got a NAS drive for Christmas which I want to link up to my mini network in my room - so I also got a 5 port switch.

Port 1 is the destop, 2 in my macbook and 3 is the nas drive.

But, I can't seem to get it all to work. When I plug my desktop into the router, it will see and work with the NAS drive but I can't connect to the Internet via wireless (so I can't get to the outside world).

How can I get the two to run side by side?

I've tried bridiging and that didn't work - am I missing something? Do I need to manually assign the IP's instead of automatically assigning them? Do I need to give them difference subnets?


Thanks


Tom

[serverguy]

Can you draw a diagram. I am well in truly confused.

How many wireless routers do you have? Are the PCs connected by wire or wireless?

[serverguy]

Actually I think I do understand.

Your WAN to the internet is via wireless, but want to connect to the NAS via a switch in your room.

Basically what you need to do:

On your wireless network, leave it set up as before. Allow it to get an IP address via DHCP.

On the wired network, go to view network connections, right click on the wired adaptor, TCP/IP Properties.

Set the IP address to 10.10.11.11

Subnet mask to 255.255.255.0

No default gateway (leave blank)

No DNS servers (leave blank)

On the NAS, do essentially the same thing, again setting a static IP address, but this time using the IP address of 10.10.11.10 and everything else the same.

On the Mac, do the same thing again, but use the IP address of 10.10.11.12

I have no Mac experience and TBH have no idea if the Mac will support multiple simultaneous network connections.

Then, you should be able to access both networks.

However, it would be a lot easier and a lot better to be honest if you just had one network and plugged all devices into that.

Don't enable bridging or you'll create a loop and will crash all of your routers and switches.

You need to set static IP addresses on the isolated network as tthere is no DHCP server on it (the switch is dumb compared to the wireless router.)

[tomthedrummer1992]

Thanks serverguy - got it all sorted now!

The only bit I followed differently was the actual IP addresses as I wanted the wireless and the wired networks on different subnets.

Thanks a lot!

[serverguy]

Glad to hear I could help.

So what IP addresses are you running now, for the wired and wireless sides?

You could theoretically use any of the IP addresses, as long as they start with either 192, 172, or 10

Keeping them in a different subnet was what I wanted you to do, hence why I suggested 10.10.11 because I am not aware of any router that defaults to this.