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Netgear ReadyNAS Duo VEEEERY slow and can't be mounted in Windows Explorer
Hi, I've got a readyNAS Duo with firmware 4.1.16 since a couple of years that contain large quantities of very important information. If it did not I would have given up long time ago. 1st c...
One practical option is to enable FTP for the NAS shares, and then install FileZilla on the PC.
If you are running Windows 10, then you need to make sure the SMB 1/CIFS client is enabled. You do that by going into "turn windows features on or off" on the PC. You will get a security warning - but you have to enable that client in order to connect to your rather old NAS.
Once you are sure that SMB 1 is enabled, reboot the PC.
Then you can try mapping the full data volume by running CMD in the PC. You enter
net use * /delete /y net use t:\ \\nas-ip-address\C /user:admin nas-admin-password
Use the real IP address and NAS admin password of course, and be careful on the typing. The spaces and the two different slash directions matter.
Note that command won't work if your admin password is still set to the default netgear1.
Thank you very much for your long response StephenB!
FTP is a very good idea (since all I want is a way to rip out all the content from the drive!) but right now the NAS Frontview page has stopped responding completely (page shows with look-and-feel but empty, without any textual content) so that is not yet possible (3 days uptime and NAS still syncing but nolonger responding to frontview or disc content web page :womanfrustrated:)
I have tried SMB enabling (it was already) and using the "net use" commands. But each time I get error message "network name nolonger available after typing the password".
I'd need to find another way to get out the data out of this NAS.
Do you have SSH enabled? While the sync may be keeping the GUI from functioning, SSH takes a lot fewer assets.
If you have a way to connect the drives to a PC (a USB dock is popular instead of using an internal SATA port), using vendor tools may help you determine if the problem is just one drive. Assuming you have a XRAID volume, you could try booting it with just the other one once you identify the bad one. You could even just try booting with each drive by itself. There will be nothing to sync, then. Note that if it does boot, you don't want to just put the other back in, as that will likely start the sync again. You should back up your data first, then try a new drive as the second one if you plan to continue using the NAS.
There are methods of getting the data off the drives using a PC or Linux system, but StephenB is more of an expert on that than I.
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