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Paul_White's avatar
May 21, 2021

"Connecting to the admin page"

Hi,

I can see from searching that this has happened to others.

My NAS did an upgrade yesterday to 6.10.5 and now when I try to access the admin page it is looping i.e. it asks for the username and password then after a few seconds goes to "Connecting to the admin page" then asks for the username and password again.

I have 3 NAS this one, a RN314, and a Pro 6 all running 6.10.5 the 314 and 6 are fine.

There is something a bit weird with the 104 - I can see a share "admin" when I look at the device in file explorer "Network" which I don't recognise. I know that HTTP maps to a folder called "admin" and wondering if there is a conection.

I have downloaded the logs.

Can anyone help?

Do do have a backup from a few days ago so a factory reset would not be the end of the world but copying the data back 3.6TB will take time...

Thanks

Paul

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User

    Paul_White wrote:

     

    There is something a bit weird with the 104 - I can see a share "admin" when I look at the device in file explorer "Network" which I don't recognise. I know that HTTP maps to a folder called "admin" and wondering if there is a conection.

     


    That's a private "home" folder - you are seeing it because you are using the NAS admin credentials.

     

    Similarly when you access https://nas-name or https://nas-ip-address (without the /admin suffix) and use the NAS admin credentials as the log in.

     

    You can disable it by turning SMB off on the Home "share" in the web ui.

     


    Paul_White wrote:

     

    I have downloaded the logs.

     


    JohnCM_S / Marc_V :  Do you folks want to take a look?  This issue appears to be showing up for several users.

    • Paul_White's avatar
      Paul_White
      Guide

      I have done a factory reset and re-installed the firmware and for a little while everything worked fine.

      Within a matter of minutes the unit has started looping again.

      The firmware re-installed was either 6.10.5 or it has updated to this version.

      Is there any way of going back to 6.10.4?

      • StephenB's avatar
        StephenB
        Guru - Experienced User

        Paul_White wrote:

         

        Is there any way of going back to 6.10.4?


        One poster found they could log in with internet explorer. One important aspect - the log in also required that they not maximize the browser window.

         

        If you can log in, then you can downgrade back to 6.10.4