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Re: Trying to communicate with old ReadyNAS Duo

denbigh1974
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Trying to communicate with old ReadyNAS Duo

I have an old ReadyNAS Duo (2012-ish?) that I am trying to get up and running using a Windows 10 laptop on the same wired network.

 

I have loaded RAIDar (Windows ver 4.3.8) and can identify the NAS IP address as 192.168.1.108. Using this, I can browse the files and transfer them to a back-up drive.

 

However, I can't seem to access the Duo setup. Any browser I use returns the message "The connection for this site is not secure. 192.168.1.108 uses an unsupported protocol."

 

Is there a relatively pain-free way to communicate with the NAS. My current thought is to back up all the files and then factory reset the device. But presumably I need to upgrade the firmware too? Is it possible?

 

The current firmware version reported by RAIDar is 4.1.16

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StephenB
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Re: Trying to communicate with old ReadyNAS Duo


@denbigh1974 wrote:

But presumably I need to upgrade the firmware too? 

The current firmware version reported by RAIDar is 4.1.16


Starting here, 4.1.16 was the final firmware version for your NAS.  So there is no upgrade.

 


@denbigh1974 wrote:

 

Is there a relatively pain-free way to communicate with the NAS.


The error is because current browsers require TLS 1.2 for HTTPS and your NAS doesn't support that.

 

Use Firefox, and set security.tls.version.min to 1 (browse to about:config and search for the setting).   You will still need to click through a security warning, since the NAS uses a self-signed certificate.  But it will connect.

 

Once you are able to access frontview (and enable ssh if you haven't already done so), you can also modify a file on the NAS to let you connect with ordinary HTTP.

 

Posts 1 and 5 in this discussion thread might help:

Note the add-ons in the discussion thread that add TLS 1.2 to 4.2.x and 5.3.x ReadyNAS aren't compatible with your 4.1.x system.  

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schumaku
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Re: Trying to communicate with old ReadyNAS Duo

Use Firefox, call about:config and set security.tls.version.min to 1

 

Firefox security.tls.version.min 1.PNG

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StephenB
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Re: Trying to communicate with old ReadyNAS Duo


@denbigh1974 wrote:

But presumably I need to upgrade the firmware too? 

The current firmware version reported by RAIDar is 4.1.16


Starting here, 4.1.16 was the final firmware version for your NAS.  So there is no upgrade.

 


@denbigh1974 wrote:

 

Is there a relatively pain-free way to communicate with the NAS.


The error is because current browsers require TLS 1.2 for HTTPS and your NAS doesn't support that.

 

Use Firefox, and set security.tls.version.min to 1 (browse to about:config and search for the setting).   You will still need to click through a security warning, since the NAS uses a self-signed certificate.  But it will connect.

 

Once you are able to access frontview (and enable ssh if you haven't already done so), you can also modify a file on the NAS to let you connect with ordinary HTTP.

 

Posts 1 and 5 in this discussion thread might help:

Note the add-ons in the discussion thread that add TLS 1.2 to 4.2.x and 5.3.x ReadyNAS aren't compatible with your 4.1.x system.  

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denbigh1974
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Re: Trying to communicate with old ReadyNAS Duo

Thanks very much for your comprehensive solution.

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