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Punk2315
Aspirant
Feb 19, 2016
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ReadyNAS NV Factory Reset Can't Logon to Admin Page

I was just given a ReadyNAS NV without disks. I got a drive and slapped it in, did a factory reset and everything went great. RAIDar says the unit is healthy. I click admin page and it asks for usern...
Using with Mac OSX
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    Feb 20, 2016

    Try admin/infrant1. If those credentials work then you are running firmware that is ancient. You should update the firmware.

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Feb 20, 2016

Try admin/infrant1. If those credentials work then you are running firmware that is ancient. You should update the firmware.

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    Punk2315
    Aspirant
    Feb 20, 2016

    That would not surprise me in the least. I will try that. Thanks!

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      Punk2315
      Aspirant
      Feb 20, 2016

      That was it! Thank you so much!

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        mdgm-ntgr
        NETGEAR Employee Retired
        Feb 20, 2016

        Considering how old the firmware on the system is, after you update the firmware and verify that the firmware update is successful I would do another factory reset (wipes all data, settings, everything) to get a clean setup on the new firmware.

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