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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...
Read the permissions guide, and it seems to be pretty much what I understood it to mean. Going to have to read the advanced version when I get a few more minutes.
New complaint though - I'm out at a library testing the ReadyNAS Remote software. Followed the guide, installed everything per the screenshots. At the library now, and choose "Log in." The popup appears saying that I am connected to my ReadyNAS, but the IP address it displays is neither my home IP address, the library's IP address, or, AFAIK, Netgear's IP address. Did an ARIN Whois on it, and the IP address looks like it belongs to the RIPE network allocation folks.
When I right click again and choose "Connect to ReadyNAS," it brings up Windows Explorer, and the folder C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\ReadyNAS Shares. There's nothing in the folder. If I look in "Computer," there is a folder called "ReadyNAS Shares," but again, there's nothing in it.
Gotta say, all of this is really, really frustrating. Not quite as seamless as all of the advertising made it out to be.
Only good news so far - put in a third hard drive, and it seems to be accepting that pretty smoothly. But without being able to access my data while on the road, it's kind of worthless.
Edited to add: Already reading through the Remote support subform. NetGear guys - you really ought to link all of the random .pdf files in the "How to set up Remote" webpage: http://www.readynas.com/?p=1435
FWIW, I have downloaded three different PDF files, gone through all the steps, and still nothing.
New complaint though - I'm out at a library testing the ReadyNAS Remote software. Followed the guide, installed everything per the screenshots. At the library now, and choose "Log in." The popup appears saying that I am connected to my ReadyNAS, but the IP address it displays is neither my home IP address, the library's IP address, or, AFAIK, Netgear's IP address. Did an ARIN Whois on it, and the IP address looks like it belongs to the RIPE network allocation folks.
When I right click again and choose "Connect to ReadyNAS," it brings up Windows Explorer, and the folder C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\ReadyNAS Shares. There's nothing in the folder. If I look in "Computer," there is a folder called "ReadyNAS Shares," but again, there's nothing in it.
Gotta say, all of this is really, really frustrating. Not quite as seamless as all of the advertising made it out to be.
Only good news so far - put in a third hard drive, and it seems to be accepting that pretty smoothly. But without being able to access my data while on the road, it's kind of worthless.
Edited to add: Already reading through the Remote support subform. NetGear guys - you really ought to link all of the random .pdf files in the "How to set up Remote" webpage: http://www.readynas.com/?p=1435
FWIW, I have downloaded three different PDF files, gone through all the steps, and still nothing.
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