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Some advice for a prospective buyer
I'm about to pull the trigger on purchasing a ReadyNAS Ultra4 with a few 2TB hard drives to fill it up, but was hoping if someone would be able to give me some advice and do some expectation managemen...
Not connect to my files remotely - do web surfing, like I could with my VPN.
Gotta say, a week into ownership with this thing, it's a very mixed bag.
Performance wise, it's fine. But the setup of it is incredibly annoying. I've created two users - one for me, and one for my wife. I can't access our home shares through Windows Explorer using, I presume, CIFS. I'm not sure if it's a Windows issue or a ReadyNAS issue, but I never ran into so many complications as when I was just sharing folders from my Windows-XP based file server. I'm still banging my head against the problems.
One neat thing - I have shares set up that refused to accept usernames/passwords to let people access them. So I gave up on trying to have a modicum of security, and just set it to guest access having default read/write capability. Yet, when I try to map the drives through Windows, it still asks for a username and password. When I supply one, Windows then pops up asking me to select a digital certificate (we use smart cards to log in to our work's webmail, so the window is populated with those certs). Very bizarre, very frustrating. When I get past that, it asks for a username/password again. Supply it with the username/password again, and Windows claims it can't map the drive because the share is in use already with a different username. If you go to Command Prompt and do a net use, there's no listing for the share that I am trying to map.
The Frontview website is kind of annoying too. Options seem much to limited, even for "Advanced" view. It'd be nice if there was a way to move files around and view more of the file structure through the application, instead of trying to map folders as admin. The sliding menu thing often stops responding, making navigating around the menus annoying and cumbersome.
All in all, I'm really frustrated with the ReadyNAS. Again, don't know if it's a Windows thing or a ReadyNAS thing, but it was infinitely smoother trying to set up stuff on my old file server.
Gotta say, a week into ownership with this thing, it's a very mixed bag.
Performance wise, it's fine. But the setup of it is incredibly annoying. I've created two users - one for me, and one for my wife. I can't access our home shares through Windows Explorer using, I presume, CIFS. I'm not sure if it's a Windows issue or a ReadyNAS issue, but I never ran into so many complications as when I was just sharing folders from my Windows-XP based file server. I'm still banging my head against the problems.
One neat thing - I have shares set up that refused to accept usernames/passwords to let people access them. So I gave up on trying to have a modicum of security, and just set it to guest access having default read/write capability. Yet, when I try to map the drives through Windows, it still asks for a username and password. When I supply one, Windows then pops up asking me to select a digital certificate (we use smart cards to log in to our work's webmail, so the window is populated with those certs). Very bizarre, very frustrating. When I get past that, it asks for a username/password again. Supply it with the username/password again, and Windows claims it can't map the drive because the share is in use already with a different username. If you go to Command Prompt and do a net use, there's no listing for the share that I am trying to map.
The Frontview website is kind of annoying too. Options seem much to limited, even for "Advanced" view. It'd be nice if there was a way to move files around and view more of the file structure through the application, instead of trying to map folders as admin. The sliding menu thing often stops responding, making navigating around the menus annoying and cumbersome.
All in all, I'm really frustrated with the ReadyNAS. Again, don't know if it's a Windows thing or a ReadyNAS thing, but it was infinitely smoother trying to set up stuff on my old file server.
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