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jimcocteau
Jun 05, 2019Guide
Ready NAS 104 Network Name "?"
I recently updated to 6.10.1 and also Edited the Names of both my ReadyNAS 104 (all fine), I now see a Question Mark (? - NetworkName) in Finder Sidebar (Connected Servers). The APF looks fine / norm...
- Aug 27, 2019
Hi,
We have fixed this problem on 6.10.2. It will be released soon.
Thanks!
StephenB
Jun 11, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Finder obviously is flagging the name.
If you don't need AFP, then try disabling that in the NAS. Or just ignore it.
hmuessig
Jun 11, 2019Luminary
Since I upgraded both the NAS and MAC OS at about the same time I'm not sure but my guess is that this is a Mojave (Mac) issue 'cause prior to Mojave things were fine.
I did a bit of poking around and don't see how to change the icon for the NAS in the finder.
- StephenBJun 11, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Have you tried disabling AFP on the NAS?
- schumakuJun 11, 2019Guru - Experienced User
The "?" does show up instead of a (Bonjour) propagated icon.
- drlowreyJul 25, 2019Aspirant
StephenB wrote:Have you tried disabling AFP on the NAS?
I disabled AFP which was showing a nice rich icon in Finder. No change to the SMB object, still an ugly, oversized question mark.
- StephenBJul 28, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Well, schumaku identified the cause earlier in the thread, and Marc_V confirmed that it is on Netgear's bug list. There's nothing more to be done until Netgear provides a fix.
Generally they don't pre-announce release dates (including start of a new public beta).
- Marc_VJun 12, 2019NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi All,
OS 6.10.1 FW uses a version of SMB wherein they are using fruit module that enhances compatibility with SMB on Apple SMB clients and makes it work better. However, the issue with "?" is because of the module and if I got it right, they are now working to get this issue fixed but might be with the next release of FW (No ETA) but this should not hinder the operation of the NAS.
Will try to get more information on this.
HTH
Regards
- drlowreyJul 23, 2019Aspirant
Marc,
It's been 6 weeks now. OS 6.10.1 still checks as the latest. Do you have an ETA yet?
Meanwhile is there any kind of a workaround, patch, hack, etc. that we can do?
BTW, I'm using ReadyNAS 424 different from the OP. Am I wrongly presuming your "fix" in a future release will work for me too?
- furghellaJul 23, 2019Tutor
I have had this issue for a while now, I thought the latest MacOS update (10.14.6) would solve it, but it didn't.
I can connect to my ReadyNas just fine, but in the Finder its icon is missing, I just get a question mark. See attachment.
I tried to add an icon as I would usually do on MacOS, but in this case I can't. Not sure if it's a MacOS or a ReadyNas OS issue.
Has anyone here seen this problem?
- schumakuJul 23, 2019Guru - Experienced User
In the Bonjour protocol NAS service announcement there is a value passed which was used by many NAS vendors and which made to show an Xserver icon. Appears Apple has removed it - appears they think there are no Xserver in the field anymore. So the change clearly happened on the MacOS side.
The "?" isn't indicating a critical error, it's just a fall-back icon set in place on the MacOS side.
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