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BestTurtle
Mar 04, 2014Aspirant
Cannot view system data files in ReadyNAS 104
Hi, everyone! I'm having the above mentioned problem, and I've looked everywhere for a solution. However, none of the replies in similar threads seem to apply to me. I'm running Windows 7 on m...
siigna
Mar 04, 2014NETGEAR Employee Retired
BestTurtle wrote: Thanks, siigna. I wasn't able to view the files in the file browser. Do you know what the correct volume name is? I guessed "c", "data" and my NAS' network ID. In all cases I get an upload field that was previously inaccessible, where I can upload files to /input where input is what I entered for the volume name (apparently disregarding the rest of the URL), but I can't view any files.
Volume name is "data" by default, or whatever you named it. In my case it's "tank".

Access via the web interface shouldn't be a problem. Here's what mine looks like:

vandermerwe wrote: siigna, if I am logged in as the NAS admin, I can see c, however I cannot browse the system files or addon folders. If I open c I just get a listing of shares.
Could you explain how SMB access to the root volume and system/ addon files is achieved. I did not think it was possible.
The apps folder is a btrfs subvolume within your main volume. Its actual location is /volume/.apps/, even though we mount it as /apps. It should be accessible in the volume share, but you might have to specify the folder directly (\\nas\volume\.apps\)
Here it is console side from my OS X machine:
[siigna@voltron ~]$ mount | grep tank
//admin@123.456.789.012/tank on /Volumes/tank-1 (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by siigna)
[siigna@voltron ~]$ ls -al /Volumes/tank-1/.apps/
total 256
drwx------ 1 siigna staff 16384 Mar 4 13:28 .
drwx------ 1 siigna staff 16384 Mar 4 13:30 ..
drwx------ 1 siigna staff 16384 Mar 4 10:33 .freeapps
drwx------ 1 siigna staff 16384 Aug 26 2013 DO_NOT_DELETE
drwx------ 1 siigna staff 16384 Jan 7 11:21 gateone
drwx------ 1 siigna staff 16384 Aug 26 2013 htop
drwx------ 1 siigna staff 16384 Mar 4 13:28 plexmediaserver
drwx------ 1 siigna staff 16384 Feb 7 17:54 surveillance
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