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Please help me connect with my newly inherited readynas duo
Hello, I recently inherited a readynas duo (do not know the exact model) and it is filled with family photos. I have no idea how to even begin to connect to it and have noone I can ask. If you can ...
Hi joso89
Welcome to the Community!
Provided that your Duo is in workng condition, accessing it is as easy as connecting it your Network through your Router. Then to make it easy you can install RAIDar to discover your NAS and get it's IP Address. Here is a reference that may help you with after connecting the NAS to your network.
The IP Address is what you will use to access your NAS. Your NAS has share folders where your files are located, once you have accessed the NAS those shares will show up. You will usually use a Windows computer attached to your Network as well. Click here for a reference.
You can also use the IP address to access the admin page using your Web browser and do some configurations. It will ask for the username and password.
The default username would be admin and password is netgear1 if your Duo is a v1 or password if it's a v2
You can actually determine if it's a v1 or a v2. You can check this guide on how to do that.
Once you have access to your files we always encourage users to backup their data to make sure it is secured in any case of NAS failure.
Hope this helps!
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