I have a friend who has a 250GB BuffaloTech NAS drive. I think its a HD-H250LAN model. They recently upgraded their router to a Apple Airport wireless extreme router of some kind. It comes with one LAN port so they hooked up this BuffaloTech NAS drive to it, but couldn't figure out how to get their XP based laptops to recognize or connect to it.
I was there over the weekend. I insalled the Buffalo NAS navigator software. It found this NS drive and said it has a IP address of 192.168.0.5. I think I may have fixed it to this address several years ago for them, but can't remember. Also, I think the new Apple router has a network IP of 10.0.0.1. Therefore, I figured this is why the XP laptops can't access it.
Anyway, I tried to change the Buffalo NAS drive to something similar from within the NAS Navigator, but its asking for the admin password. They didn't write it down and it has probably been YEARS since they really accessed it. We tried several that we thought it may be, but no success.
Therefore, the only option I could think of is to "reset" the NAS drive. Is there a small little 'reset" switch on this model that I can press to reset it (like I have done with other routers). If so, will resetting it lose any info on it or simply just put all the settings back to default? In which case, is the login info then 'admin' and 'password' or something else (like maybe 'root')?
resetting using the button does not effect any data and will only reset the IP address and the admin username/password back to root/blank