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ReadyNAS Surveillance Cannot Activate License
I purchased a license from an online vendor, they mistakenly sent the response from Netgear to an incorrect email address. I now finally have the license but cannot seem to activate it. On my NAS i...
Thanks mdgm.
I've gotten to the bottom of it...
The problem was the ethernet cable was plugged into eth0 - and license activation doesn't work in this case. When I moved the patch cable into eth1, it worked.
Bizzare behaviour. And it's a shame the error message is so generic.
Reboot didn't help. I tried to activate again but received a messae that the serial was already activated. I transfered the serial and did an offline actication successfully, so I seem to be back up and running now. Activation issues sure are getting tiring very quickly though.
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