Can't connect to my ReadyNAS Duo v2

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musselasse wrote:

 

5) "does it say ReadyNAS Duo on the front panel?"

No, it says only ReadyNAS DUO.

 

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So you have the original Duo (called a v1 here).  That runs 4.1.x firmware and uses a sparc processor.  The v2 is very different - using an arm processor and running 5.3.x firmware.

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musselasse wrote:

 

I connected it to a LAN port of the router and started RAIDar 6.5.0 but the message said "RAIDar didn't find any NETGEAR-storage in the network. ". 

says ReadyNAS DUO" and the internal IP address

 

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I am thinking that you might have PC security software (or antivirus) that is preventing  RAIDar from looking for the NAS on your network.  AVAST is one of several packages that will block access.  Try again after disabling that stuff.

You should also look at the front panel, and see if you see any of these LED patterns:

LED blink behavior for 2 disk systems is three quick blinks of all disk LEDs and the backup LED, followed by an 1s delay, followed by a number of slow blinks.  The number of slow blinks will be the error code.

Current error codes:
1  - Vendor mismatch
2  - No disks detected
3  - Bad contents on root partition of disks
4  - Flash error
5  - Unsupported RAID configuration

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musselasse wrote:

4) "When was the last time you successfully connected to your NAS?"

Years ago. But it worked and I had access to all my files from anywhere. 

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Of course accessing the files requires healthy disks, so hopefully nothing has failed.

There are some changes you should aware of.

Your NAS only supports TLS 1.0 for access to frontview (https).  Browsers deprecated TLS 1.0 back in 2023, so you will get a SSL version/Cipher mismatch error when you try to access it.  You won't be able to click-through that error.  But you can work around that by installing FireFox and setting security.tls.version.min to 1 (browse to about:config and search for the setting).

You don't actually need RAIDar to access Frontview.  Once you've installed FireFox, you can just open it and browse to https://nas-ip-address/admin (using the local IP address of the NAS instead of the nas-ip-address placeholder of course).  There will still be a security warning, but you can click through it.

Microsoft has also been deprecating SMB/CIFS 1.0, and generally Windows won't allow anonymous access.  So you will also need to go into "turn windows features on or off" and turn on the SMB/CIFS 1.0 client.  You should then be able to access your NAS shares if you go into the Windows Credential Manager and create a windows credential for the NAS IP address that uses the NAS admin account and password.