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admin password discrepancy. ReadyNas 4312
I may or may not have fixed my initial problems by upgrading FW from 6.10.8 to 6.10.10. I will try to explain this password issue. I can logon to the webGUI. I do have the admin password for the...
An OS re-install does nothing to your data, so long as that's what you actually do. If you accidently do a factory default instead, it wipes the data.
But if you have that level of concern about the data, you need a backup plan. RAID is insufficient to insure your data is safe. You need it also in an entirely different place (USB drive(s), backup NAS, cloud storage). For protection against flood, fire, theft, etc., that backup should be offsite.
GG-accel wrote:
PROBLEM: the RAIDar utility said the webGUI user and password was incorrect, when I tried Diagnostics button.
I tried "password" too and other known company passwords, but RAIDar kept reporting incorrect username or password.
You need to enter the the NAS admin password (the same one you use with the Web UI).
GG-accel wrote:
Could that be because the password is 19 characters alpha-num-punctuation?
That would be my guess too. But the only way to find out is to temporarily change the password to something simpler and shorter, and see if that works.
If it is the length or characters used, then of course it would be a bug in RAIDar. But all ReadyNAS are end-of-life, so I doubt Netgear willl do anything to fix it.
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