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Shares Gone in Netgear Browser Interface, but I can still map in Windows 10
I have access through Windows 10 to the shares, but they do not appear in the Netgear ReadyNAS Admin page. Instead, I see only the Home Folders, and cannot browse back to "Data". I have no idea wha...
I have 7TB available....less than 5 used. I'm not practiced with SSH. I saw a similar thread that mentioned SSH, but it was the opposite of my situation....could see shares, but could not map in Windows. I will take a look at that in the morning. Thank you for the suggestion.
ritamac25 wrote:
I have 7TB available....less than 5 used.
That is your data volume, not the OS partition (which is only 4 GB).
Are you seeing any messages indicating that the root is full in the logs?
No messages indicating OS volume is full or nearing max. I have never used SSH.
I was manipulating account permissions yesterday because I have not been able to access the NAS remotely. Could I have changed something there that would have restricted my view to only the Home folders? All of my users have admin privileges, so it doesn't seem consistent that an admin user would not have access to the other shares, but I've seen similar confusing situations occur, where I've changed a password, and then cannot log into the system with the new password.
Changing file permissions is exactly where such a problem could occur if the OS volume is too full, but I suppose there could be another problem then as well. The ReadyNAS has it's own set of files that are used in the GUI -- it doesn't rely strictly on the Linux system. If those files are missing or corrupt, what you are seeing is the result. Admin users have access to everything, not a small subset, so that's not it.
That script looks at the Linux information and re-creates the associated OS files.
Running a script via SSH is not very hard, but now is also not the best time to start using it. You should definately make a backup of your files, then either try the script yourself or let Netgear support do it for you.
If I attempt to use SSH and it doesn't work, what is the worst that can happen? I have to reset the NAS?
ritamac25 wrote:If I attempt to use SSH and it doesn't work, what is the worst that can happen? I have to reset the NAS?
Yes that would be the worst you could expect to happen, but that would seem unlikely. The thing is if the root volume is full attempting to fix the shares without dealing with the full root volume first could lead to more configuration getting messed up but it should still be fixable.
Considering that checking for a full root volume takes all of a few seconds (though identifying what's filling it if it is full takes longer) it's a prudent thing to do before running the script to attempt to fix it.
Provided you don't do something crazy like set the fans to run at lower speeds than the quiet fan preset leading to the device overheating (which is not something you could do by accident) there's very little risk of doing permanent damage to the hardware using SSH.
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