Newbie cant find NAS ip address(ipv6 issue?)

127.0.0.1 is an IPV4 "local" loopback address. All PC's with an IP4 network stack will have that address and will answer it's own ping.

Take a look at this -> build guide. It might help you through the initial setup.

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TU

Already had downloaded and read it -thanks.

Also aware of 127.0.0.1 and why I put ? after it but that is what I see on running ip addr and have found no other ip4 addresses from ip addr command.

I am sitting with root@openmediavault: # prompt. Any other way to get ip address from here? TAgain not very Linux schooled. The documentation says ip presented to you before login prompt after a reboot but did not see that.

Adv IP scan on my W11 laptop doesnt show server which is kind of strange if it got an ip from the Xfinity box. Could fool around with router to see what is happening there.

Maybe try a reload from usb drive, cant hurt!

TU Roger

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Can you ping google? The command below will ping google.com 5 times. Does it show it successfully pinged Google or an error? Obviously this is done from the server.

ping -c5 google.com

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tried pinging google as suggested, got msg 'name or service not known'

Sounds like your network device was not detected correctly and/or you have a DNS issue. Since you say you're not getting an IP address at all, I doubt it's a DNS issue at this point. Were you attached to the Internet during Install?

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tried pinging google as suggested, got msg 'name or service not known'

If you type this as root

omv-firstaid

The first option is configure network device. Choose that, then your network device, and just use IPV4/DHCP (I usually disable ipv6 just to avoid conflicts) and let the router assign your server an IP address.

Once it's done,

ip -a

And that should show your IP address. Go to it and log in to the webUI with admin/openmediavault. Once you can log in to the webUI, setting a static IP is easy.