Cannot access admin via https

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Marty_M wrote:

 The certificate error does that only apply to readynas it does apply to all Netgear device every time you access it through https.

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It applies to any device (not just Netgear devices) that uses self-signed certificates.  These can be mis-used (for example, a phishing site that spoofs netgear.com could use a self-signed certificate as part of the spoofing), so browsers will generate warnings whenever the web server uses a self-signed cert.

As long as you know you are connecting to your NAS, it is perfectly safe to ignore them.  If you want to eliminate the click-through warning, it's easiest to use firefox (since it allows you to create a security exception, so you don't need to add certificates to the PC's root store).

The connection will still be encrypted when you click-through the warning.  It can't be authenticated (by definition), since that requires a trusted third-party to issue the cert.