Cannot find my Philips NAS

[Salsero2]

My NAS functioned perfectly over many many years but I accessed it only occasionally. I do not know for sure whether I was able to access it also under windows 10 but I think yes.
In any case now I cannot see it. Also fvdw-sl-assistant cannot find it. If I run fvdw-sl-console it gives me an IP-address 192.168.178.252, which however I cannot ping successfully.
I remember at some point in time the IP address of my router and devices in my network started with 192.168.1 instead of with 192.168.178. And it may well be possible that at some point in time I had defined a fixed IP-address for the NAS (the subnet mask 255.255.255.0 however seems to be unchanged).
If I enter "ssh cat boot.log" in the command window of windows I get an error "ssh: Could not resolve hostname cat: Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt".

I hope somebody can help me.

PS I have already reset the NAS but no change
And I have already enabled smb1

[fvdw]

Did you change ip pool of your router from 192.168.1.xxx to 192.168.178.x or the other way around. What is the ip address of your pc?

Fvdw-sl console uses as default 192.168.1.252 not the one you mentioned. But it is irrelevant as it is inly used to communicate with the bootloader that assigns another ip as the firmware.

[Salsero2]

Thanks for your answer !

No, I did not change anything in my modem/router settings but my modem/router was exhanged as the old one (of the same brand and type) developed problems. The old one may have had as default IP-Addresses 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.xxx, the new one defaults to 192.168.178.1-192.168.178.xxx. The pool of IPv4-addresses allocated by the modem/router is from 192.168.178.20 to 192.168.178.200

The IP-address of my PC is 192.168.178.20

[Jocko]

Hi

So the issue is really the new subnet:

And it may well be possible that at some point in time I had defined a fixed IP-address

So currently the nas is on the old subnet (192.168.1.xxx) where as your laptop is on the new one (192.168.178.xxx). So logically fvdw-sl assistant can not also see the nas.

An easy way will be to change temporarily the subnet on your router and then set the new one on the nas.

[Salsero2]

Thanks so much - I set the DHCP address range to 192.168.1.20 onwards and I found the NAS at 192.168.1.52 and could connect to it and read/write :-)

The only thing that i forgot is how to set the static address for instance to 192.168.178.52 ... Or is it preferable to use a dynamic address ? If so, how do I set that ?

One last question: the presently installed firmware is 1.2.9 fw. Should I update or can I leave it as it is ?
Best regards