How to transfer a folder from my PC to my ReadyNAS

Welcome, I'm fairly new here myself and can tell you this is the right place to ask questions about the ReadyNAS.  There are tons of very smart, kind and helpful people here!

I'm curious to understand why you can't mount your NAS to your PC.

My first question: What version of OS are you running on the PC and the RN204?

I'm running OS6.10.10 on both my ReadyNAS boxes and haven't found any way to transfer folders (or files for that matter) using just the NAS web interface.  I can see where you can create a new folder using the web page though. Have you tried creating a new folder on the NAS with the same name then transferring your files into the new folder? 

How did you transfer files from your PC to your ReadyNAS using just the NAS web interface?  Did you use a ReadyNAS addon app?

At the end of the day I suppose you could just copy your folder(s) and files onto a USB stick, plug it into the USB port on the NAS and transfer the data from the USB stick to the NAS.  This link might help if you're running OS6:

https://kb.netgear.com/7015/Copying-files-from-USB-drive-to-ReadyNAS-OS6

Let us know and again, welcome!

daveswee wrote:

I haven't been able to map the ReadyNAS to my PC using its IP address so I need to use the web interface.  

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How are you trying to do this?

Assuming a Windows PC ...

You can try this test:

• If you are using the default admin password (password) then change it to something else.
• Open CMD from Windows and then enter:

net use * /d /y
net use z: \\nas-ip-address\data /u:admin nas-admin-password

replacing "nas-ip-address" and "nas-admin-password" with the real values of course.

The second command should mount the full data volume as drive letter z.

If this test works, then you can try creating a user account on the NAS.  Then enter the credentials (username and password) for the account in the Windows Credential manager. 

After that you should be able to access the NAS with file explorer by entering \\nas-ip-address in the address bar.  You can also map individual shares to drive letters.  But mapping the full data volume requires using the NAS admin credentials.