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ReadyNAS 212 Frustration(s)
I have installed 2 of these units, one at home and one at my office with 2 separate accounts/email addresses. The one I have at home, I have had since 2017 but just got around to installing it, so I...
"I'm a little confused on what you are saying here. If the office NAS is connected to your corporate network using ethernet, then you should be able to set up the NAS using the work computer. Can you clarify what you mean by a "mainframe" network? Perhaps also clarify how your RN212 is connected to your work network."
We have a windows server (mainframe) for approximately 80 employees connected via switches and cat5. I have a WIFI router in my office that the NAS drive is connected to. The WIFI router is connected to the main windows server. The intent of this NAS drive is two fold. 1- archive docs (mainly pictures) from one business unit that I'd rather not pay my provider to back up on our 'mainframe'. And 2- I would like to house other docs and pictures that are useful for my salesmen and are relatively easy to access while off site. (ie: via individual users on ReadyCloud).
"Email customer.service@netgear.com with the details, and see if they can help with the registration."
Will do! Thank you for that contact information
"What firmware are you running on the two NAS? The first step is to upgrade them both to 6.9.5 (the current version). Old firmware (before 6.5.0) isn't compatible with ReadyCloud."
Both were upgraded during initial installation and are showing 6.9.5. The odd thing with my home unit was that after it did the upgrade intially, a dialogue box popped up to install the upgrade (again), which I accepted. Once I did that, it would not 'Discover' the RN212 and therefore I couldn't access Admin. Now when I access ReadyCloud on my home unit, the screens (Home, Manage, Discover) all tell me to combine my Netgear and ReadyCloud accounts which it won't let me do.
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70chevelle wrote:
We have a windows server (mainframe) for approximately 80 employees connected via switches and cat5. I have a WIFI router in my office that the NAS drive is connected to. The WIFI router is connected to the main windows server.
If your setup is
Windows server ---> switches ---> WiFi Router ---> NAS
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work computer
Then the normal setup is to configure the WiFi router as an "access point". If you do that, then your NAS should get an IP address from your main network, and you would be able to access the admin UI (and the files on the NAS) from your work computer.
Most wifi routers can be set up in this way.
As far as remote access goes, ReadyCloud is one of several options you can use. If you can't get that working, we can give you more information on that. Note I don't work for Netgear (this is a community forum), and I don't use ReadyCloud myself. So I'll defer to others on the ReadyCloud issues. I will say that your account here is a mynetgear account, so you could reconfigure ReadyCloud to use the same credentials you use on the forum.
Thank you for all the info and help! I think I'm good (OK?) on my work NAS drive now. I seem to be able to navigate the admin page on my ipad without an issue, although the UI is not very intuitive. Thought it would be simple to setup a new user for access, but it just makes the name red with no error message or info after I hit accept and put in all the user information.
On my home unit. There is nothing on the hard drives yet. If I did a "Factory Default", would that reset the unit so I could start the installation process again? Or, since I have an account on Netgear/ReadyCloud, it won't make a difference?
Thanks again!
A factory default will reformat the disks and run through the factory install again.
You shouldn't need to do that to get ReadyCloud running, and I don't think it will help your registration issue either.
You should of course register the old unit also, since if you do need paid support (or warranty replacement) you'll need it registered.
You really should do what StephenB suggested and set the WiFi router up as an access point. Unless he is mis-interpteting your configuration (and I made the same assumption he did), you have what is called "double NAT" and it likely is causing a lot of other issues on your network as well. Once you have done that, you can use your computer to do the set-up and things should go a lot better.
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