[SOLVED] How to use wireless LAN for 'net access, and keep unRAID on wired LAN

[topcat989]

Well I tried this before but (some) answers were contradictory and maybe I didn't make my post clear, so I drew a pic, and hopefully it's self explanatory. Thanks for any help you can give.

 

Well folks my problem is this, I cut landline phone, and my DSL went with it. So my upstairs neighbor let me put my wireless router on their cable modem to give me access in exchange for fixing their computer. Problem is, my setup now means I can't see my unRAID media server. To make it simple I drew a picture:D

 

 

In case it's hard to read:

 

Problem: How to get unRAID server and my computer to "see" each other and talk, when DHCP only assigns IP to the wireless adapter. I do not want upstairs to see my unRAID server. I can manually assign IP, SUBNET, and GATEWAY to unRAID server and to onboard LAN controler on my mobo. Question is, exactly what should the numbers be? WinXP doesn't like it that two ethernet controllers are up- it defaults to the wireless, and ! marks the onboard. Thanks for any help.

 

I don't want to have to route unRAID traffic through my computer to the router and back to my computer just to watch something. I'm hoping to have my computer and unRAID server "talk" to each other directly.

 

hopefully this explains it all clear enough.

 

Help me Obi One, you're my only hope.

 

OK! Here's what I have so far:

 

Wireless NIC IP = 192.168.1.100 (obtained via DHCP server in router)

(subnet mask= 255.255.255.0)

 

onboard NIC IP set static to: 192.168.0.1

(subnet mask= 255.255.255.0)

 

unRAID NIC IP set static to: 192.168.0.2

(subnet mask= 255.255.255.0)

 

The Good News: if entering 192.168.0.2 directly into browser (chrome) I get to unRAID's webGUI, no problem.

 

The Bad News: I for the life of me cannot get the disks/shares to show in my main computer. In "my network places" is have nothing, nada, zip. Browsing comes up dry.

 

SOLVED! All I needed to do was enter the tower address (\\tower) into exploer's address bar and all the shares popped up.

 

Thanks for the help fellas, closing thread now..

[bubbaQ]

It is very simple.  Just assign 2 static IP addresses, on different subnets, to your main computer NIC.... one for wireless and the other for private comms with unRAID.  Then assign a static IP to unRAID on the private subnet.

 

unRAID can not get to Wireless or Internet, as long as you do not enable routing on your main computer.

[dgaschk]

The simple solution is to turn on Internet sharing on the XP machine.

[topcat989]

OK! Here's what I have so far:

 

Wireless NIC IP = 192.168.1.100 (obtained via DHCP server in router)

(subnet mask= 255.255.255.0)

 

onboard NIC IP set static to: 192.168.0.1

(subnet mask= 255.255.255.0)

 

unRAID NIC IP set static to: 192.168.0.2

(subnet mask= 255.255.255.0)

 

The Good News: if entering 192.168.0.2 directly into browser (chrome) I get to unRAID's webGUI, no problem.

 

The Bad News: I for the life of me cannot get the disks/shares to show in my main computer. In "my network places" is have nothing, nada, zip. Browsing comes up dry.

 

What I think might be the problem: When setting the onboard NIC to static IP, there was an entry for pointing to 2 DNS servers. I left it blank, because I didn't know what to put. Since this NIC (and unRAID's) are seperated from my wireless side, I don't think it can access the wireless router's DNS servers info.

 

Am I on the right track here? My unraid server's name is the default \\tower

 

entering that in "set up new network connection/place" does nothing, as well as entering the direct IP of 192.168.0.2

 

entering direct IP of 192.168.0.2 into chrome gets me the unRAID web GUI, but nothing else. Help..

 

(and thanks for the replies so far!)

[dgaschk]

Make sure that the server and client are in the same workgroup and the server is set as "local master".

[topcat989]

sorry didn't mean to bump

 

edited OP with answer