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Problem with admin page 104
Hi all brought a 104 and a 102 a few weeks ago and have loved them but the 102 quickly filled up so decided to buy another 104 for all the kids stuff. Saw a ex demo advertised with 2 1tb drives at ...
Could you explain how you updated the firmware without access to the admin pages?
Was your intention to preserve the data on the drives from the 102 when you put them into the 104?
I assume you removed both 1 tb drives so you now have only the 2 drives from the 102 in the 104?
Did you factory default the 104 at any stage before you put in the drives from the 102? The 104 firmware should have been at least as recent as that on the 102 if you were planning to preserve the data volume, and this needed to be on the unit before you inserted the disks, although it seems the 104 has done an update. It's also advisable to do an OS reinstall after you migrate disks from one unit to another especially if a different model.
I suspect there is a problem with the network settings on the 104. If you do an OS reinstall on the 104 it will reset network settings to dhcp ( and the admin username and password to default) . The unit should then get an IP address from your dhcp server. This should allow you to access it.
Was your intention to preserve the data on the drives from the 102 when you put them into the 104?
I assume you removed both 1 tb drives so you now have only the 2 drives from the 102 in the 104?
Did you factory default the 104 at any stage before you put in the drives from the 102? The 104 firmware should have been at least as recent as that on the 102 if you were planning to preserve the data volume, and this needed to be on the unit before you inserted the disks, although it seems the 104 has done an update. It's also advisable to do an OS reinstall after you migrate disks from one unit to another especially if a different model.
I suspect there is a problem with the network settings on the 104. If you do an OS reinstall on the 104 it will reset network settings to dhcp ( and the admin username and password to default) . The unit should then get an IP address from your dhcp server. This should allow you to access it.
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