Saturday 7 September 2019

The "Maplin" LAN Disk and Windows 10

My first steps into Network Attached Storage (NAS) drives were the Maplin LAN disk.

I've moved on to "greater" devices since but the old LAN Disks were still in the cupboard.

One had a fairly decent (by previous standards) 500GB disk and I thought I would fire it up to see if it still worked (with Windows 10).

The short answer is that you need to give it a static IP address (by reservation in my case) and create a share (I called it "share" ) via the Web interface but once you have done that it is possible to map a network drive using 192.168.x.xxx/share (as appropriate) in the "This PC" part of file explorer.

Result !