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Disappointed with lack of knowledge of support #25012209
unboxed my 516, installed 6 5tb wd red drives, booted and like a dumbass installed about every plugin (hey I was excited). The web interface went down and reboot whatever wouldn't work. I ca...
Then you are using Frontview. But the OP couldn't access it at all, and you told him it wasn't necessary. I expect you were thinking about ReadyCloud - which isn't necessary.
BaJohn wrote: ...I am looking at the Admin Web Page UI with "Netgear ReadyNAS Admin Page" at the top and tabs of 'System', 'Shares','iSCSI','Accounts' etc.
Though Frontview is really the OS4 name (the OS5 manual calls it "dashboard" and the OS6 manual calls it "local admin page").
On the mechanics of launching it from windows explorer - if you click on a storage device "network" pane, then windows will launch the browser - which puts you into the admin page. If you click on a "computer" device it opens up windows explorer, and shows you the share list. If you click on a DLNA device, then windows will launch the media player. My NAS are listed as all three (in the right pane when I click on "network").
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