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muzicman61
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Dec 14, 2018
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No Apps on RN104

I've searched and found a few solutions but none have worked.  I came home from vacation and powered up my RN104 and could not get to the admin page or ssh into the device.  I tried a OS reinstall an...
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  • muzicman61's avatar
    muzicman61
    Dec 15, 2018

    Well after reviewing the logs and a little Google searching, I tried running a command via ssh.  I ran apt-get update.  Figured it couldn't hurt.  It churned and churned for a while and then I rebooted the NAS.  After that, I was able to install mysql, php and phpmyadmin.  I also see a few featured apps showing up now but don't see anything under all apps.  But I can always get apps from the apps.netgear.com site.  So I guess I'm good. Still very strange.  Thanks for your help pointing me to the logs.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 14, 2018

Have you confirmed that the NAS can reach the internet?

 

.freeapps doesn't hold the installed apps, it's where the NAS puts the available apps listings it gets from Netgear.

 

I've never seen an APPGENIE folder, so I don't understand that comment.

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muzicman61
Tutor
Dec 14, 2018

I was able to configure Dropbox on the NAS so I'm pretty confident it can access the internet.  Is there a better way to confirm this?

 

The APPGENIE folder was just something i saw in a directory listing from another post where the user was having app issues.

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    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Dec 14, 2018
    muzicman61 wrote:

    I was able to configure Dropbox on the NAS so I'm pretty confident it can access the internet.  Is there a better way to confirm this?

     

    Since you have SSH, just ping somewhere on the internet from ssh. For instance, www.netgear.com

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        StephenB
        Guru - Experienced User
        Dec 14, 2018
        muzicman61 wrote:

        Pinging www.netgear.com from SSH was succesful.

        Then the apps should be showing up in the available apps page :smileyfrustrated:

         

        Maybe try again in a couple of hours, and see if it resolves?

         

        You can download and install manually from apps.readynas.com

         

         

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