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ReadyNAS lost both file and web access
Hi, my ReadyNAS Ultra 2 has been running long and faithfully and I expected it to be making some problems soon. I have read a bunch of posts here but couldn't find one that matches my issues.
I'm having two issues since a day or two ago:
1. The files have disappeared from my file Explorer view. Yesterday it would only answer with a strange error message reading "internal security database (LSA) inconsistent" or similar. I also still had access to the Logitech Squeezebox server running on the NAS. Now it just shows that the network path cannot be found.
However I can still ping the NAS and it also shows up in RAIDar. (Even though it now shows also a disk error, that wasn't there an hour ago.) I'm a bit worried now that errors keep piling up.
2. I also cannot access the FrontView anymore, I read about the TLS change and installed Firefox 93, but I guess because of Issue #1 this doesn't help at the moment.
I need to regain access to my files to extract them from the NAS.
(Maybe I will update the NAS afterwards to OS6 with new HDDs).
Would it in theory be possible to take out one HDD and access it with an USB-SATA cable directly from my PC or can it only be mounted via the ReadyNAS-OS?
I have both an WIn10 and an Win11 PC and the behaviour is identical.
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OldNAS wrote:
I also cannot access the FrontView anymore, I read about the TLS change and installed Firefox 93, but I guess because of Issue #1 this doesn't help at the moment.
Are you saying that the older firefox still doesn't let you connect to frontview? (Of course you will still get the cert exception, so you'd have to click through that).
One thing to check is that firefox didn't autoupdate on you before you had a chance to disable that.
OldNAS wrote:
Would it in theory be possible to take out one HDD and access it with an USB-SATA cable directly from my PC or can it only be mounted via the ReadyNAS-OS?
You could try powering down the NAS, and removing the disk showing errors. Then see if you can reboot it.
But to answer your question - assuming you are running XRAID or RAID-1, then it should be possible to connect just one disk to the PC. Windows won't recognize the file system format (ext) though.
You can try the (free) R-linux for Windows package from https://www.r-studio.com/free-linux-recovery/
Linux Reader might also work: https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
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