HELP!!!-Can't find my xserve's IP address

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HELP!!!-Can't find my xserve's IP address

My xserve has been working like a dream for the past few months, then after using gateway setup assistant I have lost complete control of it and now dont know the IP address of the xserve, I can still access AFP share points and mount the drives but i cant use ARD to control it as I have no idea what the IP address is please any suggestions would be much appreciated, if I boot in target disk mode can i change the IP address?

Dual 2.0GHz G5, Dual 1.8GHz G5, Xserve 2.0GHz, MBP 2.0GHz, PB G4 1.66GHz, MacMini, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Dual 2.0GHz G5, Dual 1.8GHz G5, Xserve 2.0GHz, MBP 2.0GHz, PB G4 1.66GHz, MacMini,, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 26, 2006 5:15 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 26, 2006 7:10 AM in response to Matt Brown

Matt Brown-

I am guessing that you have no monitor attached? I am sure that this can be done via the command line but I am not your guy for that.

Booting in TDM will not allow you to change the ip address.

It sounds like your ip for the internal network (AFP and such) has not changed. Have you tried powering down and then back on the unit? I have had issues after doing various setup procedures that seemed to go away after I did this. Mileage does vary.

Make sure that your target ip address in ARD on the machine you are logging in with is correct.

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

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Answer 2

Aug 26, 2006 7:13 AM in response to Matt Brown

You could use the ARD scanner tab to check for the server or any machines on LAN.

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Answer 3

Camelot

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Aug 26, 2006 11:28 AM in response to Matt Brown

Your other options are to use the console port with a serial cable (57,600, 8-N=1) which will give you a shell login on the server.

Or, ping the broadcast address on your network and then scan the ARP table for the server's MAC address.
If your machine is in the correct subnet you should be able to ping the last address - for example, if you use 192.168.1.x/255.255.255.0, the broadcast address will be 192.168.1.255.
Once you've pinged every machine in the network your machine will map its MAC address to its IP address which you can query via the arp command. Specifically:

arp -a

will list every known IP/MAC address pair

Chances are, though, that you don't know the server's MAC address in which case you have two further options - first get a magnifying glass and look on the back of the server - the MAC address is printed in 4pt text on the label on the back. Alternatively, connect an ethernet cable directly between the server and your machine, wait 5 minutes (for the arp cache to expire) and ping the broadcast address. Then query the arp table and remove your own machine's entry (which you can find via ifconfig -a - what's left should be the server.

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Matt Brown Author

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Aug 26, 2006 9:14 PM in response to Matt Brown

Thanks Guys,
It's all good I rebooted my Xserve in TDM and set one of my G5's startup disk to the server which allowed me to login and view/change te IP address it's all back to normal and can control in ARD, but might I add I still have'nt been able to configure it using Gateway Setup Asst it just sit's there saying 'seting up network' but surely thats not a 3 hour process? if someone has a good step by step guide to using GSA would be great I know it's probably basic but i just wana make sure im not missing something simple (I do have a static IP-now)

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Answer 5

Aug 27, 2006 6:25 AM in response to Matt Brown

Wow-

Thanks for the feedback. Good job figuring that one out!

I was positive that logging in via TDM wouldn't help, but you figured it out anyway.

Good job-

-DaddyPaycheck

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