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Luminary

Oct 10, 2019

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Accessing ReadyNAS Shares from iPad Air running iPadOS 13.1

I have now owned my ReadyNAS for some time and have been using it to store files from Windows 10 and Linux without any issues. My wife recently purchased an iPad Air and asked how she could backup her files and I've been trying to set this up for her. iPadOS has a facility whereby the user can connect to an SMB server and I was able to connect to her account on the ReadyNAS and view the icon for her folder. When I tried to open this however, the busy icon came up and never went away.

I have set up a share on the ReadyNAS and can acces it perfectly from my Linux box, so is there some reason why I can't access it from iPadOS?

StephenB
Oct 11, 2019
I didn't realize the iPadOS had that feature, so I haven't tried. But I'm out of town for the next couple weeks, so I won't be able to try this myself for a while.

TerryJColes wrote:

I'm logging into smb://admin@readynas, which is exactly the same as I do on the other devices. For her account, I use smb://Lynn@readynas/Lynn, again what I use on the other devices.

try smb://nas-ip-address using the real ip address of the NAS of course. Then put in Lynn in the name field (and of course the password in the password field).

This suggestion is based on this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdfdxdjUdro

Using the IP address eliminates any possibility that this is related to hostname discovery.

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Marc_V
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 10, 2019
TerryJColes

What firmware are you running? and is Enhance MacOS enabled on SMB Global options?

Have you tried using ReadyCloud App? ReadyCloud app also connects your iPad to the NAS and make backups of your media.

HTH

Regards
- TerryJColes
  Luminary
  Oct 11, 2019
  The firmware is V 6.10.1 - the latest according to the admin tool.
  
  I hadn't noticed the 'Enhance MacOS' setting, so I turned it on, but then found that I could no longer access the shares from my Linux box, When I investigated, I found that 'Legacy Windows Discovery' had been unchecked. When I turned that on, I could access the shares from Linux but not from the iPad. That's when I found that 'Enhance MacOS' had been disabled:smileyindifferent: (Don't ask me why samba on Kubuntu 19.04 (the current latest version) needs 'Legacy Windows Discovery' to be enabled. Samba has supported very recent versions of SMB/CIFS for many years now.)
  
  Anyway, it took a while, but now I have both options enabled, but still cannot login from the iPad.
  
  We looked at the ReadyCloud App, but it has such a low approval rating in the User Reviews that my wife vetoed installing it.
  - StephenB
    Guru
    Oct 11, 2019
    TerryJColes wrote:
    
    I hadn't noticed the 'Enhance MacOS' setting, so I turned it on, but then found that I could no longer access the shares from my Linux box, When I investigated, I found that 'Legacy Windows Discovery' had been unchecked. When I turned that on, I could access the shares from Linux but not from the iPad.
    
    What credentials are you using from the iPad? Try using admin (with the NAS admin password) as a test.
    
    FWIW, SMB access gives her local access to the NAS. If she wants remote access, then she could use ReadyCloud - or you could deploy a VPN (many routers now have OpenVPN built in). OwnCloud is yet another option.