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Readynas vs readycloud
Brand new readynas204. All you terrible documentation sbows browser screens with "netgear readycloud' in upper left corner. All i ever see is "netgear readynas". Cant get the single windows 7 pro 64-b...
I don't recognize "btsync". When my point is the lack of documentation, why don't you point me to documentation on "btsync" instead of saying "it might work"????
On the CLOUD tab, I only see admin as a user. Add User button tells me to register using ReadyCloud.
The quagmire: Trying to login to ReadyCloud desktop app. I cannot create the user Mary; I get a message user already exists. Attempting to create another user, Joel, I get a message that my email address has already been taken, I am assuming by Mary. I cannot login to Mary because it I get a message that the User Name and Password do not exist.
Today I tried to attach a jpeg of the local error message, but the Attach Picture button on the forum does not have a browse button today to get to a file. I swear there was a way to browse to a file here yesterday. You were able to see my attachment. Now it just asks for a source and I could not get it to attach a picture.
BTSync (BitTorreent Sync) is not a Netgear program, though it does support the ReadyNAS. Google is your friiend.
It seems to me that you want to use ReadyNAS in local mode but you are looking at documentation for ReadyCloud access, which is the "Cloud" interface. For whatever reason, Netgear is stearing people to using the Cloud interface instead of the local one. I hope that they are seeing your confusion and understand that, since the storage is not in the cloud, it's right next to you, that many people still want to use it that way. Their documentation for this usage is, as you say, quite poor. Apparently, Netgear incorrectly thinks that anyone trying to use the NAS in that manner will already be familiar with how to access a server from their OS (Windows for most users). But since ReadyCloud cannot map to a Windows drive letter (see details below), local access is the only way for many programs to directly access it, including your backup program.
From your screen shot, I can see your NAS IP is 192.168.1.127 and it's name is mronning NAS. If that really is the name, I suggest you change the space to an underscore, as while spaces in names can be troublesome in Windows, they can be moreso in Linux (the underlying OS of the ReadyNAS). I do not know what effect, if any, that will have on the ReadyCloud registration if you have done that. But it sounds to me like you have not actually registered the NAS with Readycloud, which is also one of your problems.
So, from Windows, you should be able to access it as \\192.168.1.127\Sharename or \\mroning NAS\Sharename. Just type that into the address bar of any open Explorer window. Note that in some other contexts, you will need to quote the NAS name that contains spaces. You should also be able to see it in "Network" (or "Network Neighborhood" for older Windows), as long as you have them in the same Workgroup ("Workgroup" by default in both Windows and the ReadyNAS).
By far the easiest way to use it in Windows is to map a drive to it. Double-click on the NAS in Network, then right click on a share and select "Map a network drive" and select a drive letter. Once you have done that, you can access it just like it was a drive in your computer (except it will ask for a password if you don't click the box for Windows to remember it). If you cannot see the NAS in Network, you can alternately do it in "This PC" or "My Computer", depending on Windows version. In Win 10, it's in the Computer tab. Type in the Share name in the form I have listed above and select a drive letter. Starting mappings from Z and working backwards is recommended (and the default) to keep mapped and real drives from "colliding".
From your screen From your screen shot, I can see your NAS IP is
Thank you for pointing out the possible space in name. I will check and correct that tonight.
I can define and reach ReadyNAS shares from my windows PC. Copy files to and from this shared directory.
If I share a folder on Windows, I can setup the ReadyNAS to sync this shared folder. That said, I prefer not to share my Windows drive or folders. Not to mention the connection problems that always occur with Windows and peer-to-peer, it is a security issue to me. I could just share the folders as read-only and this technically prevents modification and deleting.
We have an older Western Digital running Windows 2008 Server at my offce. By older, I mean Windows Server, I believe Western Digital runs their own brewed OS similiar to the ReadyNAS on their hardware now. It has a client application that we install on each Windows PC. It has its own set of backup menus but they are just a remote access version of Windows Backup from what I can tell. I was trying to get away from the Western Digital / Windows 2008 Server method and that is why I went with the ReadyNAS at home.
But it looks like I just spent $500 on a box that I could have set up myself with a couple old drives and on a retired PC using a freeware NAS. I probably would have spent far less time overall and ended up far more educated.
Of course, I can just make a share on the ReadyNAS and run Windows Backup. Windows Backup, I have found it reliable, I just wish it gave me options to control it instead of relying on manual vs timed or % of file differences to force a full backup vs incremental. Therefore, this is what I am also trying to avoid.
Jr12
Jr12 wrote:
If I share a folder on Windows, I can setup the ReadyNAS to sync this shared folder. That said, I prefer not to share my Windows drive or folders. Not to mention the connection problems that always occur with Windows and peer-to-peer, it is a security issue to me.
I agree that its best to not open those security threats. The implication is that you need a backup (or sync) application running on the PCs that use the NAS as a target. If the NAS could read an unshared folder on the PC, that would be an even bigger security issue.
ReadyCloud is potentially an option, but in my opinion is not a good one for PC backup - especially if these backups on on your local LAN. Bittorrent Sync looks closer to what you might want. I use Acronis TrueImage myself (not the newer cloud version), specifying a network share as its destination folder.
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