File Manager inside Readynas

Actually, I don't use Vista. I use XP. Deleting 100-300GB files takes a LONG time.

My +1 stands...

We'd like to copy/move files around on the ReadyNAS, pull out portions of the files we're backup up via rsync, and create an archive directory - we're talking thousands of files and several gigabytes of data at a time... doing this over the network (1GB switched) is just painfully slow. This is annoying, when I know that if I logged in via SSH and did a cp or mv, it would be orders of magnitude faster - but that's not supported. If there was some other way to move files around on the ReadyNAS that didn't saturate the network, and was supported, that would be great. FTP doesn't work, because it is insecure.

Hmm... now that I think about it, using "scponly" (as I suggested elsewhere) would solve this problem too.

+1 :D

I'd agree, it'd be nice to have a viable file manager on the ReadyNAS. There's certain functions that would be a lot faster to do locally on the NAS vs over the network.

SSH is doable for the technically inclined, but I think that it would be more user friendly for the majority of people if there was some sort of interface.

Agree, is more fast acting over the ReadyNAS than over the network, file manager is a good option.

There is a built-in HTTP file manager. Just enable write access over HTTP and you can connect to http://<readynas> and do your magic. 8)

If there already is a file manager, why not make it available in FrontView so that we does not have to open another protocol?

geirvb wrote:
If there already is a file manager, why not make it available in FrontView so that we does not have to open another protocol?

You don't need to open a new protocol. The way I understand yoh-dah, the file manager is available in Frontview already.

Windows Users

For those that don't mind enabling SSH access, you can use something like WinSCP to manage files on your NAS. Keep in mind that enabling SSH may result in Netgear denying you support, but it'll do what you want:



For Linux users

Most distros will include support for SFTP, such as Konquerer in KDE or gFTP in Gnome. If your distro lacks either, you can download/compile gFTP yourself at http://gftp.seul.org/.




For MAC Users

There is also a port of gFTP for the Mac, but who knows, maybe there's already an FTP/SFTP/SCP client built-in:

http://gftp.darwinports.com/

-Dave

yoh-dah wrote:
There is a built-in HTTP file manager. Just enable write access over HTTP and you can connect to http://<readynas> and do your magic. 8)

So I enabled write access over HTTP. Logged in as admin and then I can see all the shares I enabled write access. I click through the tree to the directory, where I have some undeletable files. So far great.
But: It doesn't show any files in all directories (they are there, for sure).
Help says:
"Why does the file manager seem broken in certain directories or when copying or pasting certain files?
This occurs when the web file manager does not have permission to access these files. You must access these files via another method."

Nice, there is a built-in HTTP file manager, but if I want to use it, I have to use "another method". :D
Is there a way to get the permission?

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