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Netgear DUO admin site ??
I've had this NASdrive for years and it has worked well - I renewed the discs 1 time - nice !
I had it running under Windows 10 for most of the years - but had the problem that I could NOT get access to the administrator site - don't know why !
Now I've updated to Windows 11 and it worked nicely for some days ... more specific until I reset the network - now it asks for credentials to get access !!!!
As I remember I had never had access to the administrator site before !
In my network the settings for the NAS is "\\192.168.1.2\media" and I had used this with success but efter resetting the network it wont work any more ... it wants my credentials to get access :-(
Yeah, I know it's an old drive ;-)
How can I solve this problem ... not that it's old, but that it don't work ?
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Keld in Denmark
I sometimes just run the RAIDAR program
It'd be helpful to know if you have the original Duo, or if you have the Duo v2.
The original Duo
- says ReadyNAS Duo on the front panel and in RAIDar
- runs 4.1.x firmware (RAIDar should tell you that)
The v2
- says ReadyNAS Duo v2 on the front panel and in RAIDar
- runs 5.3.x firmware
the NAS is still assigned 192.168.1.2
Then you can access the NAS web ui using https://192.168.1.2/admin. But you need to use Firefox, and set security.tls.version.min to 1 (browse to about:config and search for the setting).
If you don't recall the admin password, the default for the original Duo is netgear1. The default for the v2 is password.
I used the 'name' \\192.168.1.2\media" to get access in Windows 11 ... and in fact it worked for 3-4 days
It'll be easier to sort this out after you get admin access.
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I remember I had never had access to the administrator site before !
You should have (and you should log in as admin from time to time to make sure the NAS is still operationing correctly).
but after resetting the network it wont work
Let's start here.
- What exactly did you do to "reset the network"?
- Is the network still using 192.168.1.x addresses?
- Is the NAS still assigned address 192.168.1.2?
THX for a very quick reply StephenB !
I can't remember when my access to the admin site stopped ... I sometimes just run the RAIDAR program to see if the NAS is still OK.
I'll answer you Q's here:
add 1) I just used the Windows key for resetting the network.
add 2) My router is set up as DHCP server to manage the pc's in the network and too the NAS
add 3) Yeah the NAS is still assigned 192.168.1.2 and I used the 'name' \\192.168.1.2\media" to get access in Windows 11 ... and in fact it worked for 3-4 days until I used the reset network key in Windows 11
I used the reset network key hoping it could solve the problems I have with the security settings to get macros to work in Excel/Word ... they are driving my in sane /&%(/(/%/&%¤%&%%#¤ !
I would be very happy if you could help me get my head around these NAS problems :-)
I sometimes just run the RAIDAR program
It'd be helpful to know if you have the original Duo, or if you have the Duo v2.
The original Duo
- says ReadyNAS Duo on the front panel and in RAIDar
- runs 4.1.x firmware (RAIDar should tell you that)
The v2
- says ReadyNAS Duo v2 on the front panel and in RAIDar
- runs 5.3.x firmware
the NAS is still assigned 192.168.1.2
Then you can access the NAS web ui using https://192.168.1.2/admin. But you need to use Firefox, and set security.tls.version.min to 1 (browse to about:config and search for the setting).
If you don't recall the admin password, the default for the original Duo is netgear1. The default for the v2 is password.
I used the 'name' \\192.168.1.2\media" to get access in Windows 11 ... and in fact it worked for 3-4 days
It'll be easier to sort this out after you get admin access.
To access such a legacy NAS, following a complete Windows network reset might require re-adding the ip optional SMB 1.0/CIFS protocol as have in not a part of the default Windows 11 network config. Head to Windows Features, and re-adding the optional SMB 1.0/CIFS support again (both client and server).
A reason why you have to use authentication is because a modern Windows 11 system does. I longer allow anonymous (aka. guest) access, even as a client.
Welcome to the modern world of Windows 11.
IF I wants to do any thing at the admin site I'll have to do the config changes - did I get it right ?
Yes. The reason is that most browsers (chrome, edge, etc) require TLS 1.2, and your old NAS only has TLS 1.0. The setting change in FireFox allows TLS 1.0 connections.
As I mentioned, if you are familiar with SSH there is a way to modify the NAS so you could use http://192.168.1.2/admin (which right now will just redirect you to https://192.168.1.2). That would let you use Edge. Have you any experience with the linux command line interface?
I understand I'm using the ReadyNAS as a GUEST and then it's an unsafe practice - did I get it right ?Well, Microsoft considers it unsafe, and has gradually tightened up guest/anonymous access. It is easier to use a credential than it is to fight that.
IF SO I'll try to create a new user on the NAS ... but go slow because the whole family use this daily and I'l be stoned out of town if the can't use it for days :-(
Just creating the user account won't disrupt anything. Then you can try creating a windows credential that uses it. If it fails for some reason, you can just delete the windows credential.
Note you only need one account - the entire family can share the credentials.
Do you have any backup of the files on the NAS? Devices can fail at any time, and yours is ~15 years old. So you should put a backup plan in place. Perhaps get a USB drive, and copy all the files from the NAS to the USB drive on a regular basis. FreeFileSync is one of several Windows utilities you can use for that.
THX again for your advices and I'll try - and I think I can do it :-)
BackUp - yes, I have a backup plan - in fact more - for weeks, month, quarters and years.
Linux command line interface ... no experience but I have tried to run a mashine once in my younger days but left it because of ' too many 'do it youself details' - buit it sounds interesting if I could use Edge ... that's my plan IF I manage to install W11 on more of my machines - if it's not TOO complicated and if you can just pull it out of your sleaves then I would be very happy :-)
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Keld in Denmark
Linux command line interface ... no experience but I have tried to run a mashine once in my younger days but left it because of ' too many 'do it youself details' - buit it sounds interesting if I could use Edge ... that's my plan IF I manage to install W11 on more of my machines - if it's not TOO complicated and if you can just pull it out of your sleaves then I would be very happy :-)
See the first post here:
This post gives a step-by-step that doesn't require much linux experience:
- https://community.netgear.com/discussions/readynas-general/workaround-for-err-ssl-version-or-cipher-mismatch-problem-for-sparc-nas-4-1-x-fi/2198243/replies/2202466
Oh, so nice ... I'll study the links and report back after some days !
THX !
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