Question Router to Switch to Switch to NAS

[Colin_52]

Hi guys

hoping someone can help me? I'll try and keep this short and to the point.
I have multiple Nvidia shields that run kodi through cat6 ethernet, purely to watch my movies on from a local NAS. Everything was working fine until i decided to change the location of my NAS.
Originally my set up was this: 8 port POE Switch (TP-link LS108)
1. IP Camera
2. Nvidia Shield
3. Nvidia Shield
4. Nvidia Shield
5. Nvidia Shield
6. NAS
7. 5 port POE switch (TP-link LS105GP) (Summerhouse)
8. Router (TP link Archer AX72)

Switch from no:7 (TP-link LS105GP) (summerhouse at the end of the garden)
1. IP Camera
2. Nvidia Shield
3. Wi-Fi extender (TP-link)
4. Empty
5. Empty

All Nvidia Shields + laptop and phones could find the NAS drive, everything worked perfectly. The NAS was located in the room next to my bedroom and makes a bit of noise at night. So i decided to move the NAS to the Summerhouse. I read that you could daisy chain network switches.
Now my set up is
8 port POE Switch (TP-link LS108)
1. IP Camera
2. Nvidia Shield
3. Nvidia Shield
4. Nvidia Shield
5. Nvidia Shield
6. Empty
7. 5 port POE switch (TP-link LS105GP) (Summerhouse)
8. Router (TP link Archer AX72)

Switch from no:7 (TP-link LS105GP) (summerhouse at the end of the garden)
1. IP Camera
2. Nvidia Shield
3. Wi-Fi extender (TP-link)
4. NAS
5. Empty

I can't locate the NAS on any of the Shields running KODI or my laptop. I'm ok with following step by step instructions but i don't know too much regarding networking.
Sorry for the long post, but it was the best way i could explain it.

 

[LinuxDevice]

If you have any way of reaching the NAS admin interface, then you should be able to get its IP address (or the fact that IP address is failing). From each switch you can run a

traceroute

to that IP address to see the route it takes (in Windows it is

tracert

). Any device that can reach the NAS admin screen will allow you to ask the NAS itself about how it is connected.

 

[bill001g]

So I assume you just didn't put it in your list. You have port 7 of the main switch that you say goes to the remote switch. You did not list a port that this cable plugs into on the 5 port switch.

Does the NAS function if your remove the remote switch and plug the cable in the remote room directly into NAS. It should all you are basically doing is switch which port on the main switch it is plugged into.

When it is running with the NAS plugged into the remote switch can you ping the IP of the nas from a pc in the main house. What happens if you plug a pc into the extra port on the remote switch can you then ping the NAS.

The switches should be completely invisible to the network. Their really is not much difference between plugging the NAS directly into the cable in the remote location or putting your 5 port switch between. Of course all the device in the remote location share the 1gbit bandwidth back to the main switch so if you had servers instead of the nvidia shields on the main switch talking to the nas there might be a performacne difference.

 

[ajohnson30]

It sounds like 1 of 2 things happened.
1. Your NAS didn't have a static IP, so when you moved it, it came back up with a different IP, and everything got confused.
OR
2. Your NAS has multiple network ports, and maybe you plugged into a different one than before, which resulted in a different IP (see #1)

Check on that. I always hard code my NAS IP(s) to one that is outside the DHCP range my router/dhcp server is handing out.

Other than that, I don't have any other ideas, other than reboot everything