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ReadyCloud Desktop App shows 'ReadyNAS online (VPN Disconnected)'
I have two ReadyNAS running latest 6.9.5 firmware and ReadyCloud desktop app v1.6 running on both windows and macos machines connected outside my LAN. Neither will connect and show status 'Online (VPN disconnected)'. Web browser and iOS mobile connectivity works.
I've followed a number of discussion threads, tried a number of things, but can't resolve it:
- Rebooted NAS a number of times
- Turned off readyCloud feature by 'leaving' then rejoining
- Removed & reinstalled both desktop apps
- tried all the above pre NAS upgrade whilst runnign 6.9.4
- tried changing readycloud settings, specifying TCP port 6300,, punching holes in my firewall, 'encryption' on and off...
Nothing works. Can anyone help - really struggling with this...
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- Hi mfinney
Did you solve the issue?
I have the same problem and (as you did) I have tried to fix it making changes and tests for long but without any success.
I can see that Netgear Community has no solution and the support team provides no answer at all when they do not know how to act (my experience with several things that I asked is that I got no solutions; is like the support team avoid to enter in questions that they do not control completely).
If you got a solution, please, tell us about it. I am near madness with this problem.
Thank you.Hi
I switched back to my original account - same issue, didn't work, so switched back to new and all good. I went back to Netgear with this info but none of them could work out why their VPN client wouldn't work with my old account...
Thank you StephenB and mfinney
As StephenB says, the symptoms that my problem presents are different from those mfinney
So if my last test doesn't work, I'll open a new thread.
But before doing so, as I say, I am going to try the solution that mfinney has given.
As soon as I have time to do the test I will tell you the result.
Once again, thank you very much.
I haven't used ReadyCloud for a long time now, so I can't give much current advice - other than to consider moving to a different solution for remote access - deploying your own VPN. If you don't have many simultaneous users, you can see if your existing router supports openVPN. Both Nighthawk and Orbi routers do.
I will say that since the ReadyCloud web interface is working, that the problem cannot be on the NAS->ReadyCloud leg. So playing around with DNS, port forwarding, leaving/rejoining ReadyCloud on the NAS isn't going to be fruitful. The issue sounds like it has to be the PC->ReadyCloud connection. I'd be looking at internet security software that might be running on the PCs, and the network setup that the remote folks are using.
Thank you StephenB
It doesn't appear to be the connection between ReadyCLOUD and the PC. In fact, I have two NAS operating in two different cities and I always can connect with one of them (always the same) but the other only connect sometimes and, apparently, there is no reason to connect or not.
The situation is as this:
Me (the PC with ReadyCLOUD) and both NAS (call it A [RN21200] and B [RN3138]) are installed in different cities each other (city A, city B and city PC). Three different places.
Both NAS are conneted to the web via fiber.
I am in a mountain with two radio connections (R1 and R2) balanced through a multi-wan router.
I've tried to connect using both radio-links, or cancelling one of the radio-link or cancelling the other (R1 and R2 connected - I try // R1 disconnected - I try again // R2 disconnected - I try once more).
Here is where I say that there is a random connection protocol. Sometimes I get a stable connection. Sometimes I cannot get connected. But I always get connection with one of the two NAS; I always get connection with A but B is connected only sometimes.
I have tried to do it even in several different places with fiber or ADSL connections. I always get the same: A always connect, B connect sometimes yes, sometimes no.
I always use Google DNS and Cloudfare DNSSo, I can infere that: The problem are not the ports; the problem is not the PC; the problem is not ReadyCLOUD; the problem is not the connection itself.
I'm becoming in mental hospital flesh.
By the way, I have tried all the suggested solutions that appear in other threads. The results are the same that I tell above.
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