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UTF8 with NFS & Windows 10 on ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus with 4.2.31 Firmware
Hi,
I had a Hard drive die and basicly ended up getting a new computer with new windows professional installed.
When I tries to connect to my NAS shares using:
Net use x: \\ip_addr\share
as I was soing for quite a few years, I got the following error:
You can't connect to the file share because it's not secure. This share requires the obsolete SMB1 protocol, which is unsafe and could expose your system to attack. Your system requires SMB2 or higher. For more info on resolving this issue, see: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=852747
Though it is possibly to install SMB1 back the linked document recommends agianst it.
The good news was that it should be possible to work with NFS so I activated NFS on the share and
mount -o anon,nfsvers=4,lang=utf8 \\ip_addr\share x:
however any utf8 folder & filename shows as bytes insted of utf8 characters.
I read somewhere that NFS4.1 supports utf8 but trying
rpcinfo -p ip_addr
seems to indicate that only nfs4 is supported
I tried
mount -o anon,nfsvers=4.1,lang=utf8 \\ip_addr\share x:
and
mount -o anon,nfsvers=4,lang=utf8 \\ip_addr\share x:
but those result in an error.
mount -o anon,nfsvers=4 \\ip_addr\share x:
does work but the utf8 folder and file names are trash...
looking for any ideas that might help.
3 Replies
epeleg wrote:
Though it is possibly to install SMB1 back the linked document recommends agianst it.
NFS isn't any more secure than SMB1 (unless you use Kerberos, which the NAS doesn't do). So personally I'd just enable SMB1 on the Win10 PC.
Another option is to convert the NAS to run OS-6, which would give you current SMB.
Thanks StephanB,
It looks like I don't have many other alternatives right now.
as for upgrading to OS-6 I would be happy to do but,
1) I was under the impression that this is not a Netgear supported upgrad update (plz correct me if I am wrong).
2) From what I read this wipes the Device clean of all its Data... this will require my to temporarily move all the current data
to other devices on my network which will both take time and also might end up in data loss.
(Also I am not even sure that I have enough empty storage on my other computers to hold all this information,
and internet speed here makes any upload related solution non practical)
Thanks,Eyal
epeleg wrote:
1) I was under the impression that this is not a Netgear supported upgrad update (plz correct me if I am wrong).
Netgear doesn't support it. So you wouldn't be able to engage paid Netgear support (including data recovery services) if you convert it.
People of course will have different views on how much that matters for a NAS that went end-of-life in 2013.
epeleg wrote:
2) From what I read this wipes the Device clean of all its Data... this will require my to temporarily move all the current data
to other devices on my network which will both take time and also might end up in data loss.
(Also I am not even sure that I have enough empty storage on my other computers to hold all this information,
and internet speed here makes any upload related solution non practical)It does require a factory reset.
But it is concerning that you have no backup plan in place for your NAS. Whether you convert it or not, you should take care of that. RAID isn't enough to keep your data safe.
USB disks aren't that expensive (US prices for 8 TB USB drives are less than $150). Over the long run, investing in backup is better than paying for data recovery - often less expensive, and much more effective at avoiding data loss.
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