I have a home network with 3 Win 11 PCs and 1 of the PCs has 3 USB external hard drives attached. I would like to know the IP address of each external hard drive and then make each external hard drive to have a static IP address.
I would appreciate your assistance
@Neil154 Why would USB attached drives have an IP? The computer will but not the drives. They are shared through the computer.
@DVair I am using the external hard drives for backup purposes and thought that if I could have the drives with static IP it would eliminate a path problem for the backup because my backup program support suggested I use IP rather than names for the path. So would you then say that I should make the PC with the external drives to have a static IP and use the drive name after that.
I did not know that the hard drives would not have their own IPs. I do know how to set a static IP for the individual PC.
@DVair If I plug in a USB to the router and then connect 3 external hard drives to the hub, will each of the hard drives show up on the DHCP lising on my router and each have their own IP address. If yes, can I then make them have static IPs?
@Neil154 No, drives don't get addresses, they get share names off of the device that they are connected to.
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