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ReadyNAS Remote Login Problems
Readynas Remote no longer recognizes assigned User ID's & passwords. We've been using a ReadyNAS Ultra 4 for the last 5 years wih both remote and local access. As of Friday, Jan 27, 2017 everythi...
garrybunk wrote:My ReadyNAS Remote access is working this morning! I am getting an error message at Windows startup, something about a ReadyNAS Remote Config-Options file "can't access - file in use", but it's working so I just click ok and it disappears.
-Garry
Working for us as well. Required no actionon our part -- it simply started working.
There seem to be a lot of issues with Windows systems reaching both readynas remote and readycloud over the past few days. It'd be helpful if someone from Netgear posted some info on what's going on.
I'm in the same boat. I've been running ReadyNAS Remote on a Duo v2 at home for over a year no without issue. At work my laptop logs into ReadyNAS remote automatically upon startup and access has been working flawlessly through last Friday. Then on Monday I noticed I'm getting the same error posted in the O.P. At first I thought maybe it was because my ISP changed my IP address (which they did, but I don't know when that change occurred - perhaps months ago), but then realised ReadyNAS Remote shouldn't be affected by my IP address (right?).
It's almost like we're being forced to migrate to ReadyCLOUD without notice. I can't remember why I didn't go with ReadyCLOUD a year ago when I first set this up; perhaps because ReadyNAS Remote was simpler. Does ReadyCLOUD do the same thing? Give you a secure private connection to all your shares as if you were physically conneced to the same network (i.e. as if I was home)?
-Garry
garrybunk wrote:
I can't remember why I didn't go with ReadyCLOUD a year ago when I first set this up;
ReadyCloud is OS-6 only, it is not available on your duo v2. So that was never an option for you.
ReadyCloud does include the remote VPN connection, but there are other features are layered on top.
You could switch to OwnCloud, there is an add-on available for the v2 (small cost) here: https://rnxtras.com/readynas-os5-arm
Well that makes sense. I'm going to hold off and see what happens over the next week or so. My situation is not critical. I would like to see a clear statement saying "Use of ReadyNAS Remote has been terminated, please migrate to . . ." or similar.
Does Owncloud operate in a similar fashion? Install the app in the NAS and install on client on the PC that can run at startup?
Thanks,
-Garry
garrybunk wrote:
Does Owncloud operate in a similar fashion? Install the app in the NAS and install on client on the PC that can run at startup?
Yes.
Yet another (similar to remote) is to get a router that includes OpenVPN (Nighthawks do). Then you'd install the openVPN client on your devices, and can connect to your full home network over an encrypted connection.
If you go that route, you want to make sure that the OpenVPN implementation in the router supports both TUN and TAP (mobile devices use TUN, so if you only have TAP you can only connect with a PC).
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