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Cannot set a hostname
I installed ReadyNAS Photos II on a RN102 (Firmware 6.1.8 ) When I enter a hostname in step 2 of the settings I always get the following error "It contains invalid characters." For example the hostn...
Certainly there are no white spaces around the hyphen! I wrote it exactly like this: alpi11-nas
But I found another strange detail: in step 2 is written: " Also maximum length of hostname is 31 letters."
But I found out that there are only 16 letters possible. I marked the whole field with the mouse and pressed the backspace-button on my keyboard to delete possible white spaces. It was still not possible to enter more than 16 letters.
But I found another strange detail: in step 2 is written: " Also maximum length of hostname is 31 letters."
But I found out that there are only 16 letters possible. I marked the whole field with the mouse and pressed the backspace-button on my keyboard to delete possible white spaces. It was still not possible to enter more than 16 letters.
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