That's the address when the DHCP fails. Something else is wrong here, not a subnet issue.
I have several computers on a wireless network. No issues there. On one of the computers, I have a switch connected to the ethernet port, and two NAS boxes on the switch. I can see the NAS boxes from the computer they are attached to. The wireless Router is 192.168.1.1 . The Network card is 169.254.209.253 (preferred). I would like to make the NAS boxes visible to all computers on the network. Is there a way to do this? Can I assign the NIC to a vacant IP address on the 192.168.1.XXX network? If not, how can I make them available to all computers on the wireless network?

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