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RN1044 6.5.2 can't login
Ok - I have an RN10400 thats been running well for years. I have four disks with a fair amount of data in Raid Pairs. We had it on network 2 (192.168.0.X) working with Active Directory linked to ...
Ok - Well its the new year now and after the Christmas holidays things have settled down and its just worked again.
I tried it on the second NIC (on dhcp) and then bought it to my office and tried various things.
Then the Xmas holidays hit so its been sitting locked up in the workshop.
Today I took it back, plugged it in (Again - NIC2 on DHCP) and its working perfectly and the authentication via Windows Server AD is all working.
Perhaps it was actually a problem on the AD itself with merger of servers back to one site requiring IP changes and DNS cache etc but whatever the case its all going.
Now to back it up and do some more firmware updates.
6.5.2 - Sorry - I put it on the subject but not in the body :)
I've found a bit of talk around 6.5.2 and some took drives out and wiped them which I don't want to do. Others maraculously started working and some got assistance from Netgear engineers.
I'm tempted to login to the page and click the upgrade button but that could make things worse potentially - At least in my head if the background processes aren't running correctly it might not complete the updated. I could be wrong there and that might be the best thing to do but figured I'd run it past people who have a greater experience of the devices.
mobiusnz wrote:
6.5.2 - Sorry - I put it on the subject but not in the body :)
I was asking because there are is a migration path you need to follow if you are running firmware older than 6.5.2 But that won't affect you. Still it would be good to resolve your issues before moving forward.
If you have the antivirus service enabled, you should probably disable that.
I am wondering if you had bonding enabled before. There were some issues with older firmware misbehaving when bonding was removed or settings changed.
Antivirus is disabled and I don't recall even attempting bonding. The fact one is on a static IP still and one is on DHCP would indicate thats off?
mobiusnz wrote:
I don't recall even attempting bonding. The fact one is on a static IP still and one is on DHCP would indicate thats off?
Likely bonding wasn't configured, but I am confused on why you can't change the IP configuration on NIC-1.
Normally an unused NIC would show up as using DHCP, since that is the default. So somehow NIC-1 got set to something else. Since 198.168.0.251 was on the old network, I am thinking it might have been configured to use a static address when first set up.
Which of the two NICs are connected now?
Yeah - NIC 1 was setup on that static IP address. Nic 2 was never previously used.
When I put a pc on that subnet and even put in a router on that subnet with internet access I could get to the login prompt and then it would sit there and eventually show loading admin....
Its now plugged into my network on NIC 2 with DHCP and with that I get the page to load and can click on a setting or another option and it loads but rapidly I just get spinning wheels on some settings and then the page eventually gives me the "Connecting to the ReadyNAS Admin page" loading bar.I've tried going to users, authentication hoping it might show me the server config (If its IP or DNS Name as I can't remember) but it never loads.
Every time I get to that front page I get the upgrade prompt and thats a real 50/50 for me - It might update and work perfectly - It might attempt an update and local part way and make matters worse.
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