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ReadyNAS 628x version 6.10.9 applications
Hello All, I have a new to me ReadyNAS 628x now running version 6.10.9. It was running 6.10.10 and the Installed Apps and Available Apps were not functioning. I saw that the App store has been ret...
scowenhoven wrote:
I have one on my PC and I tried to re-direct the downloads folder to a newly created folder on the NAS, but it told me I can't save to a network share. Thanks for your help in this.
You can map a drive letter on the PC to a NAS share, and that should work for this particular software.
FWIW, I personally don't run apps on my NAS. I run them on an always-on PC that has NAS shares mapped to drive letters. One reason I use that approach is that it allows me to upgrade my application server and my storage independently. The PC has a GPU, so can handle plex transcoding better than the NAS.
Of course many people do run apps - just keep in mind that many are old, and over time you won't be able to update them since Debian 8 is deprecated (so needed libraries aren't being built for it).
While Netgear has taken down their apps page, the download links in this archived page still work:
So you can use that to manually download the deb files for the x86 platform, and then manually install them on the NAS.
I don't know know how long Netgear will keep their repository on line, so I suggest downloading all the apps you are interested in.
scowenhoven wrote:
I have a new to me ReadyNAS 628x now running version 6.10.9. It was running 6.10.10 and the Installed Apps and Available Apps were not functioning. I saw that the App store has been retired. I downgraded to 6.10.9 and now have options for Plex and Resilio Sync.
One thing with 6.10.10 that does work with Plex (so far anyway) is downloading the deb file from plex, and then installing it as if it were a ReadyNAS firmware update. The other options are to use ssh or just stick with 6.10.9
However there is an underlying issue - the version of Debian Linux that the NAS uses has been deprecated and archived by the Debian community. There is a guide here that doesn't require linux knowledge:
The two files you need are available in post 37 of this discussion thread:
Even with this mod, there will be apps that can't be installed because they depend on libraries that are simply not available for Debian Jessie.
scowenhoven wrote:
How do I find other apps to install?
Most of the apps in the app store were old, and were never supported by Netgear. Is there a particular app you are interested in?
Thanks for the prompt response! I will look at the steps you described this weekend. As far as what apps I'd like to use, I have no idea. This is a whole new thing for me. I've never owned a NAS. My main goal was to get Plex up and running and it is finally. With that said, I'd like to see what options I have available to me. I'd definitely like to get a peer to peer file sharing client (apparently, I can't use the T word). I have one on my PC and I tried to re-direct the downloads folder to a newly created folder on the NAS, but it told me I can't save to a network share. Thanks for your help in this.
-Spencer
scowenhoven wrote:
I have one on my PC and I tried to re-direct the downloads folder to a newly created folder on the NAS, but it told me I can't save to a network share. Thanks for your help in this.
You can map a drive letter on the PC to a NAS share, and that should work for this particular software.
FWIW, I personally don't run apps on my NAS. I run them on an always-on PC that has NAS shares mapped to drive letters. One reason I use that approach is that it allows me to upgrade my application server and my storage independently. The PC has a GPU, so can handle plex transcoding better than the NAS.
Of course many people do run apps - just keep in mind that many are old, and over time you won't be able to update them since Debian 8 is deprecated (so needed libraries aren't being built for it).
While Netgear has taken down their apps page, the download links in this archived page still work:
So you can use that to manually download the deb files for the x86 platform, and then manually install them on the NAS.
I don't know know how long Netgear will keep their repository on line, so I suggest downloading all the apps you are interested in.
FYI, if you do set up torrenting on a NAS share, make sure snapshots and bit-rot protection are both turned off on that share.
In general, if random writes are done to a share, then you want these features off. Otherwise the files will be extremely fragmented.
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