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ReadyCLOUD discover reveals more than I bargained for
I visited ReadyCLOUD, selected 'Set up a new ReadyNAS', and was a bit surpeised to see so many devices - none of which are mine. Are these real devices of other users?
jmel wrote:
Based on the slow support I've seen here in the past, ....
Mind you, this is a customer community and in no aspect a formal support channel under any service level.
Yes it’s a customer community but the software is broken in so many ways and has no features compared to other manufacturers. Sometimes I really ask myself why Iam still hurting myself with using Netgear NAS hardware since years, over 3 different models now. It seems I have a masochistic streak otherwise I would use something which is improving and not getting worse and worse.
Maybe we all have a masochistic streak ^^
Maybe we all have a masochistic streak ^^
Did you complete the set-up and did your NAS then disappear from the list? If so (and I think it should, but I never really used ReadyCloud) then Netgear did not anticipate that so many would enable ReadyCloud and then never complete the set-up and has failed to warn users about potential consequences of doing so. But I'm not sure that's such a really terrible consequence unless there is a way to "hijack" somebody's ReadyNAS, which you seem to have determined cannot happen without knowing the NAS name, admin password, and having access to the network on which it resides.
This is intriguing. So, I just visited https://readycloud.netgear.com, selected add new device, NAS, and low and behold, no devices are displayed at all now. I used search, and it did show my local NAS, but surely this is now functioning entirely as we'd expect?
Anyone from Netgear here to confirm the behaviour has been changed?
I got curious about this and looked up what actually gets called when you 'search'... If you manually go to the API address and change the callback ID you'll see other devices than your own so yeah........
Not that it really matter much, it doesn't provide you access - at most you'll see the hostname + internal IP which obviously won't be reachable anyways.
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