Assigning an IP address to a Network Drive

[Chris G]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:10:49AM -0500, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On 01/05/2010 09:48 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have a newly acquired Western Digital 1TB My Book World Edition. What
> > I want to do is add it to my local network and use it for storage under
> > NFS. I use a small hub(6 port) in a wired network. I do not have a
> > router nor do I have any MS software installed and do not use Samba,
> > just Ubuntu.
> >
> > My question is how do I assign an IP address to the device without some
> > sort of identifier for the physical device?
> >
> > Assume the address would be 192.168.139.5, hostname koala (if needed).
> >
> > I have done some reading and understand the need for an /etc/fstab entry
> > and an /etc/exports entry but I still do not see what would set the IP
> > address to the device.
> 
> <http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705013.pdf> This is a 
> NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit. It doesn't seem to support NFS, 

It most definitely *does* support NFS but you have to turn it on in
the Web interface (I have one, works very well).


> which is odd given that it will mount ext3 filesystems on devices 
> plugged into its USB port. That suggests it's running *nix. It only 
> supports CIFS, for which you'd have to install the Samba client, or FTP.
> 
> The device is configured to get its IP via DHCP by default. In its web 
> admin interface, you have the option of setting a static IP if you don't 
> have a DHCP server on your network. Even if you only have a few devices 
> on your network, DHCP makes things easier. For something like this 
> device, you'd want to assign a static IP and host name via DHCP to it.

-- 
Chris Green