Connecting to the NAS without NASNavigator

[donls]

Just bought a LS-X3.0TL NAS for my wife. She wants to be able to use the NAS with her older systems, but NASNavigator will not run on a PPC (requires Intel). Turns out, all you need to do is use a web browser to connect to the admin web page on the NAS.

I was able to find the IP address of the NAS by running the setup software on one of the newer machines (which started up Firefox to address the NAS, independent of the default browser setting). [In this case, firefox ran on a Parallels VM rather than on my main machine] I could have also found the IP address by examining DHCP settings from a number of sources.

Once I found the IP address, I was able to connect to the NAS using a browser on the older machines (or the newer ones) and turn on AFP. Once that was done, the older machines were able to connect to the NAS.

As far as I can tell, the only thing the NASNavigator software does is launch a web page connected to the NAS admin server.

[joma90]

Nas Navigator does a little more then that, you change the ip address on the unit with Nas Navigator, You can make shares easier if you don't know how, you can ask the unit to beep just incase you are trying to work on one and you have like 20 of the same ones and don't know what is what. Nas Navigator is also used for the auto mode on linkstations and terastations. not all units have this feature so read your manual. Nas Navigator can also give you a storage % of used space and the mac address to the nic. it comes in handy but that depends on what kind of user are you. hope that helps.