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Unable to find readynas duo rnd 2110 v2 on my network and unable to reset to factory settings
Hello, I have a readynas duo rnd 2110 v2 that seems to boot up fine, led's are lit not flashing, but I cannot find it in my network. I have attempted to find it using raidar, and advanced network ...
- StephenB
Success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to thank you because without your help, I would have given up a long time ago.
This nas frustrated me for a couple of weeks straight, but I don't give up easily.
This is what I did in case it helps anyone else.
I had to get an old router and configure it with a static ip of 192.168.168.1 and enable dhcp on it.
Then i configured my laptop to accept dhcp ip assignment and I connected it to the router.
I did an os reinstall on the nas with just disk one and then I connected it to the router.
I started raidar and it found the nas right away, and the setup button was not greyed out.
I got an error about the browser and had to enable my old internet explorer as the default browser, and after that raidar was able to open the frontview interface.
I could not use the browser to set it up and had to use raidar.
I cannot thank you enough for sticking with me and all my questions.
God bless you!
cboudet wrote:
Should I plug it directly to a laptop?
First I would power down the NAS, remove the hard drives (labeling by slot), and power it up again. Then see if RAIDar finds it.
When done, power down before reinserting the drives (and put them back into the correct slot).
I think I am making progress, but I am frustrated because raidar is still not finding the nas.
Last night I found out why I had not been able to reset the nas.
The label at the bottom said it was an rnd 2110 v2 , so I thought it was version 2 but it is a version 1 readynas duo and the reset procedure is a little different for it.
I was able to reset it and it took a long time with disk 2 so this morning it was done and ready according to the led's but when I tried to connect, RAIDar does not find it. I tried through the browser using 192.168.168.168 and still cannot connect.
I thought it was being blocked by the browser but can't seem to find where to allow the browser to connect, and I don't know if that is the problem now.
Anyway, I am stuck.
I connected it to my home network in the 10.0.0.x range and hopefully it aquired a new ip from the router.
When I get home I will keep trying.
The issue with RAIDar might be caused by security software on the PC
cboudet wrote:
Last night I found out why I had not been able to reset the nas.
The label at the bottom said it was an rnd 2110 v2 , so I thought it was version 2 but it is a version 1 readynas duo and the reset procedure is a little different for it.
Yes, the procedures are different (and the labeling is confusing). Note if you did the factory default procedure, the system would reformat the disks - so you would lose all the data. Hopefully you actually did an "OS reinstall".
cboudet wrote:
I tried through the browser using 192.168.168.168 and still cannot connect.
That is because you have a 10.0.0.x network. It is possible to connect the NAS directly to a PC over ethernet (with no router). But if you do that, you also need to manually configure the network on the PC before you can connect.
You can get to the settings in Win10 by
- going to "network and internet" in the control panel
- Select "change adapter settings"
- Select the ethernet adapter
- select "change settings of this connection"
- Select "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
- click on "properties"
From there, select the "alternate configuration" tab. and fill it out like this:
Then you can browse to https://192.168.168.168/admin
However, there was a change in the internet browsers a few months ago that will get in the way. Your NAS uses TLS 1.0 for HTTPS connections, and browsers now require TLS 1.2. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc will give you an SSL protocol error and/or a Cipher mismatch when you try to reach frontview.
You can
- Use Internet Explorer if that is installed on the PC
- Use Edge in IE mode ( see https://pureinfotech.com/enable-ie-mode-microsoft-edge-chromium/ )
- Download an old version of Firefox (94.0.2 works), and configure it to not auto-update. Then use FireFox to access the NAS
Thanks so much for the help.
I connected it to the laptop before and after I connected it to my home network.
before, I used a set ip as you suggested, and after I used the ip assigned by my home router.
In both cases I could not find the NAS with neither RAIDAR nor browser.
I don't know what else to do.
I have disabled the firewall and uninstalled my virus scanner.
I don't know how to do the permissions or security stuff other than what I did, which may not be a good idea.
Thanks again
Ok, I think I am one step closer to getting in the nas frontview panel.
I configured the IP as you suggested, and connected it to the laptop.
I did another os reinstall and as soon as the two disk led's lit solid, I opened RAIDar and it found it!
But a few seconds later it disappeared and the raidar help screen shows with the last three messages blinking:
awaiting resync
life support mode
background task active
And I cannot open frontview.
I don't understand, because both the power light and both disk lighta are solid, and the activity light is not lit.
would changing to new disks make it work?
Thanks
cboudet wrote:
Ok, I think I am one step closer to getting in the nas frontview panel.
I configured the IP as you suggested, and connected it to the laptop.
I did another os reinstall and as soon as the two disk led's lit solid, I opened RAIDar and it found it!
But a few seconds later it disappeared and the raidar help screen shows with the last three messages blinking:
awaiting resync
life support mode
background task active
And I cannot open frontview.
I don't understand, because both the power light and both disk lighta are solid, and the activity light is not lit.
would changing to new disks make it work?
The NAS boots from the disks, so switching to new disks should resolve this.
You could also try powering down the NAS, and removing disk 1. Then boot up with slot 1 empty, and see if it boots normally.
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