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File explorer and management for my ReadyNAS
I have been using my ReadyNAS 104 now for a few weeks. Generally very impressed - and for the price it is unbeatable. The only one thing I am surprised at is the file management interface and capab...
Got it working!!
Based on your explanation of the issue, I just cleaned out all network mappings with net use * /delete, manually disconnected WinExplorer mappings and deleted all credentials and rebooted.
When re-started, I network mapped in WinExplorer checking the 'use other credentials' - then entering the cloud user credentials from my NAS. Used the NAS name (not the IP address) in the network mapping and checked the keep credentials and re-connect at logon. When creating more drive mappings to the same NAS, I followed the same process, but didn't try and enter new credentials ('cos it errors if I did).
Hey presto, all shares mapped to drives and persist at login.
Thanks greatly for pointing me in the right direction, and helping me to find a little more about net use, Windows credentials manager and to keep persisting ;-)
Jon
Getting a good user web interface to the NAS is long overdue (and IMO that shouldn't be limited to ReadyCloud). These look like good ideas for the ideas exchange section of the forum, so perhaps post them there. Perhaps post them individually. I'm not so sure about 8, you might want to post the use cases you have in mind for that one (in the idea exchange post).
Netgear views the build-in gui as an administrator tool, not a user tool. Shares do need to be created from the web ui, but subfolders are created from file explorer (or finder). Normal file manipulation (including setting file permisisons) is all done from the client OS. That shouldn't be "flaky" if you have a solid network connection, but browsing large folders will be sluggish - to some degree that's a drawback of the CIFS file sharing protocol, though of course a NAS with a faster CPU would speed it up.
FWIW, Pydio is the newer name for ajaxexplorer, I suspect the older app should simply be deleted from the app store. Plex might be of interest to you for the video features.
Hopefully others will post on their experience with Pydio and other file management tools.
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