Readynas Pro Reporting much larger used volume than total of

I'd like to clean up the old data... I have one user home share I use with 216 GB of Data, the other 5 folders are empty

Apparently they are not so empty (7 TB total, not ~200GB).

For cleaning them out, the easiest way is to use the windows file sharing method above. You might want to set the folder option to see hidden files.

hmm

I have tried to aces through windows explorer and internet explorer for access\\propioneer\c on 3 different computers and I keep getting a page cannot be displayed error. What am I doing wrong?

kenzok2002 wrote:
hmm I have tried to aces through windows explorer and internet explorer for access\\propioneer\c on 3 different computers and I keep getting a page cannot be displayed error. What am I doing wrong?

You have to use Windows Explorer not Internet Explorer...but it never worked for me also.

You could also do it via SSH, but this is potentially dangerous, as root user can delete everything (including system files) and render system unusable.

EDIT: Removed Instructions, probably not a very good idea for Novice user... :oops:

I'm thinking you are not that comfortable with ssh, so I'd suggest not doing it that way.

Putting \\nasname\c into the windows explorer bar will work, but you may have to set up the Windows credentials manager to use the NAS admin account when connecting to the NAS.

As Etz says, Windows explorer, not internet explorer. And you need to get the slashes correct (\\ not //). Otherwise it just launches the browser.

If that doesn't work for some reason, you can often trick windows by using \\NASIP\c. Windows normally only allows one credential set per remote machine. But it treats the IP address and the nasname as two different machines.

StephenB wrote:
... but you may have to set up the Windows credentials manager to use the NAS admin account when connecting to the NAS.

Thx for the tip, now got it working also, apparently without credentials it gives you an error, which actually doesnt say anything useful, except cryptic error code and "cannot connect" message... :)

Actually I always thought that it would ask for Credentials when doing that, but apparently it doesnt...
Its a very first time when I tried this also, as I usually use SSH for debugging and moving things around between shares themselves.

Well thanks all for your help

I tried \\nasname\c \\nasip\c I changed the windows credentials to match the admin account... nothing worked

I'm thinking it may be time for a backup and factory reset unless someone can tell me how to delete the home share... is it automatically created by the nas as its not in the share listing

kenzok2002 wrote:
I'm thinking it may be time for a backup and factory reset unless someone can tell me how to delete the home share... is it automatically created by the nas as its not in the share listing

I dont think it is advisable to delete whole /home/ folder as it probably wont get recreated unless you do a firmware reinstall.
Its not in the share listing as it is a integral part of Linux installation and it isnt technically share, shared are only user folders under it.

For Linux system /home/ is a directory where User files are created and kept. It is basically equivivalent of C:\Users folder in Windows.

Update...
Thinking what the heck I rebooted the computer and the windows credentials worked... don't know why I did not think to reboot right away

I found a pesky folder inside the home folder named USB_HDD_6 that had backups of all the other home shares, my photos and my other media files totaling 6+ TB
don't know who It got there... unless I disconnected a USB harddrive and it somehow got created...going to delete it and leave the rest of the home shares alone

Glad that you got this finally sorted..

Still Wondering how that USB_HDD_6 got under your home directory.
You probably should check your backup job(s) settings.