Network Harddrive won't show on network?

[Whittie]

Hi, I was just after a little help if possible?

I've got a network hardrive that has been plugged into my router for months, all fine and dandy.

The drives have just vanished, so i reset router / hardrive and nothing.

Plugged it into my laptop directly and all the files and folders are still there, no problems there....

Why has it randomly vanished? No settings have been changed....

I've re-installed the hardware, and gone through a basic setup again, still won't show.

I've tried to re-map the drives but it doesn't even show up on my network to map.

I've also gone into the router config, and it shows on the ethernet 2 socket (I've moved it to ethernet 1 and still doesnt show...)

They used to be set up like this:

http://img2.pict.com/38/ae/27/3360349/0/drives.png

When I click browse, I only have the C:// visible....

Home Hub - Displaying under "Iomega"

http://img2.pict.com/b1/4d/70/3360446/0/bt2520home2520hub25202520local25.png

I could view them with a static IP but why should I! I would like it set up as it was.

Thank you for any help!

[KM-Tiger]

I could view them with a static IP but why should I! I would like it set up as it was.

The Iomega device needs to have an IP address in the same range and subnet as other devices if it is to be visible on your network. The output from your router shows that not to be the case.

The 86.150.x.x address is odd as that's actually the address range of BT nameservers. The Iomega device should be in the 192.168.1.x range. Also having two devices with address 192.168.1.64 will lead to unpredictable trouble unless those actually are the same device.

Never had the misfortune to deal with a BT Homehub, so cannot add more. Hopefully someone else will be along who knows them.

[Whittie]

The Iomega device needs to have an IP address in the same range and subnet as other devices if it is to be visible on your network. The output from your router shows that not to be the case.

The 86.150.x.x address is odd as that's actually the address range of BT nameservers. The Iomega device should be in the 192.168.1.x range. Also having two devices with address 192.168.1.64 will lead to unpredictable trouble unless those actually are the same device.

Never had the misfortune to deal with a BT Homehub, so cannot add more. Hopefully someone else will be along who knows them.

Completely cracked with it after an hour of faffing about, I've found an old router from the garage... using that and it works fine! No idea why it was assigning the device an external IP, even though it had an internal static ip.

[PureIT]

you can actually assign IP's PUBLIC or Private with the BT homehub, not the most straightforward of routers to work with though