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Goliver
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Nov 14, 2020
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OSX Catalina access problems

I recently upgraded to MACOS  Catalina 10.15.7 Initially my Ready NAS worked but it subsequently dropped off the network and nothing I do will let me connect to it.   READYCLoud web access works ...
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Nov 15, 2020

    I'm not a Mac owner, so I can't offer much help.  Catalina has been out a while, and there haven't been a lot of posts here on issues (though there have been a couple).

     

    You might want to go to system->settings->services->SMB and enable "Legacy Windows Discovery" and "Enhance MacOS" and see if they help.  Perhaps also enable UPnP.

     

    If that doesn't help, you could try to add the NAS name and IP address to the Catalina hosts file.  That should resolve any name resolution issues, but it is apparently isn't that easy to do.  https://www.imore.com/how-edit-your-macs-hosts-file-and-why-you-would-want

     

    If you do edit the hosts file, make sure you reserve the NAS IP address in your router.

     

    But these steps won't resolve issues accessing the NAS by IP address (or issues with not being able to connect to https://nas-ip-address/admin).  If you are using AFP for access, you might try switching to SMB.

     

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