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a. DHCP client is enabled by default. Therefore, your router or other LAN equipment that
is providing the DHCP service will automatically assign an IP address to the NAS drive and
complete the network connection.
b. If no DHCP server is available on your isolated network, then the auto-negotiation
process will proceed in one of two ways, depending on whether Bonjour protocol is enabled
or disabled. Bonjour protocol is built-in to recent Mac OS X systems, and can also be
optionally installed on Windows systems.
i. Apple Bonjour protocol is enabled by default. In this case if you are connecting to an
isolated Bonjour-enabled network and no DHCP server is present, your NAS drive will
negotiate an address within the Bonjour range of 169.254.x.x. If you want to determine
the specifi c address within this range, you can use the network “ping” function to “ping
verbatimnas” or “ping verbatimnas.local”. Alternatively, if you have a PC on the LAN,
you can run the included Finder.exe utility (provided to you on CD) to determine the
address.
ii. If the NAS drive has been previously accessed in order to disable Bonjour and you
are now connecting to a network with no DHCP server present, then a different auto-
negotiation takes place. In this case the NAS drive will automatically launch its internal
DHCP server. This will result in the NAS drive taking the default IP address of 192.168.1.1
and will also assign addresses (in the range of 192.168.1.2-50) to other DHCP clients on
the network .
8. After
successfully connecting to your network you will be able to see the NAS drive on your
network. Its default name is “verbatimnas” and it will be located in the network workgroup
named “Workgroup”. In Windows go to My Network Places / Entire Network / Microsoft
Windows Network / Workgroup, or in Mac OS X go to Finder / Network / Workgroup. You
can open the device to see the following default folders:
a. admin
b. guest-share
c. public
