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4.1.7 Slow To Respond To SMB Network Discovery...
Hi, Since upgrading my DUO to 4.1.7 I have noticed that the DUO is *very* slow to respond SMB/SAMBA network share enumeration requests. It may take up to about a minute for the DUO to provide its ...
Good news, Everyone!
I finally had the opportunity to back up the data on one of my ReadyNAS Duos. Feeling a bit more secure having taken that precaution, I searched for information about downgrading to 4.1.6. Here's what I found out :)
The page announcing the release of 4.1.6 on July 15, 2009 is still alive! And it can be found at http://www.readynas.com/?p=2620
On that page, you'll find the image for the 4.1.6 firmware still being served in its original form at http://www.readynas.com/download/RAIDiator/RAIDiator-4.1.6 (this is a direct link to the 59.4 MB image which you can use to do a "Local Update" in your ReadyNAS web config screens).
When you click "Upload and verify image..." it will think for a few moments and then results in this screen
Happily, I clicked Perform System Update. The ReadyNAS Duo immediately told me to reboot. It took a few minutes to update itself while booting, but after that I am pleased to report that all of my settings, shares and files were intact. Browsing to the CIFS share was instant without using the toggling hack. I rebooted and browsed to my share just to confirm, and yes, the discovery is instant again.
Purely in the interest of science, I rebooted my ReadyNAS Duo that still has 4.1.7 on it. It took the ~30 seconds to find the CIFS share, as usual. I will be downgrading this one as well after posting this reply.
tl;dr - I have confirmed that downgrading to 4.1.6 fixes this bug.
I hope this helps,
Sean
PS - I must admit that I had hoped for the Netgear crew to help me out on these forums instead of having to figure this stuff out myself. In the future it'd be nice to have more acknowledgment, concern and updates about the progress towards fixing bugs like this one.
I finally had the opportunity to back up the data on one of my ReadyNAS Duos. Feeling a bit more secure having taken that precaution, I searched for information about downgrading to 4.1.6. Here's what I found out :)
The page announcing the release of 4.1.6 on July 15, 2009 is still alive! And it can be found at http://www.readynas.com/?p=2620
On that page, you'll find the image for the 4.1.6 firmware still being served in its original form at http://www.readynas.com/download/RAIDiator/RAIDiator-4.1.6 (this is a direct link to the 59.4 MB image which you can use to do a "Local Update" in your ReadyNAS web config screens).
When you click "Upload and verify image..." it will think for a few moments and then results in this screen
Happily, I clicked Perform System Update. The ReadyNAS Duo immediately told me to reboot. It took a few minutes to update itself while booting, but after that I am pleased to report that all of my settings, shares and files were intact. Browsing to the CIFS share was instant without using the toggling hack. I rebooted and browsed to my share just to confirm, and yes, the discovery is instant again.
Purely in the interest of science, I rebooted my ReadyNAS Duo that still has 4.1.7 on it. It took the ~30 seconds to find the CIFS share, as usual. I will be downgrading this one as well after posting this reply.
tl;dr - I have confirmed that downgrading to 4.1.6 fixes this bug.
I hope this helps,
Sean
PS - I must admit that I had hoped for the Netgear crew to help me out on these forums instead of having to figure this stuff out myself. In the future it'd be nice to have more acknowledgment, concern and updates about the progress towards fixing bugs like this one.
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