two machines running free nas on the same network

[signinprocessisshit]

new to forum i apologize in advance, I'm just a tinkerer
I only just found out about Freenas last year, I'm currently trying to back up my Freenas system, so i decided to build an old Pc into a nasbox to see what the benifits would be for me personally, if any. its a year later my hardware was/is horrible out of date. and now my moms becoming interested in it and I'm working it alot harder, we've backed up are moved collection and digitized for storage on the server... getting back to the point I've got my hands on a much better system, still out of date mind you... but I'm trying to get them both connected on the same network and it seems like one system keeps booting the other one off... i can only see one freenas computer on the network at a time.... does anyone know what might be causing this..
thanks for any help
sincerely, New "lol"

 

[pirateghost]

make sure both FreeNAS servers have different hostnames, in CIFS settings and network global configuration (the 2 names can match each other but the servers need to be named differently)