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ReadyNas Remote on Lion Creating a user id?
OK so finally there is a Lion version of remote, after battling with repairing the Time Machine sparse bundles and hours and hours of looking up Terminal commands I managed to get it repaired (well for now, its corrupted twice already) but now no shares are booted when the iMac boots up :( And I read Remote ReadyNas makes things lot easy like accessing the spare bundles etc etc..
Good thing is the Remote software installs now on Lion, but I can't log in cos I get no setup agent to register a user id!!!!! bloody hell why does nothing work with Netgear without having something complicated method to sort it out. I can get to the website where I can retrieve a user id or a password but nothing about creating one! I've tried uninstalling and and reinstalling still no user id setup.. I mean what a stupid way to setup? or am I missing something here..?
Surfing Ebay now to sell the dam thing and get an Airport base station where I can run backups...
Good thing is the Remote software installs now on Lion, but I can't log in cos I get no setup agent to register a user id!!!!! bloody hell why does nothing work with Netgear without having something complicated method to sort it out. I can get to the website where I can retrieve a user id or a password but nothing about creating one! I've tried uninstalling and and reinstalling still no user id setup.. I mean what a stupid way to setup? or am I missing something here..?
Surfing Ebay now to sell the dam thing and get an Airport base station where I can run backups...
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- Switching to an AEBS is probably a good idea - It will save you wasting time with Remote particularly given it has nothing to do with making access to the TM sparsebundle any easier.
Just bear in mind that migration to an AEBS or TimeCapsule is unlikely to resolve the issue with your exisiting sparse bundle given the source of the issue is OSX and so Apple products suffer similarly as I explained in response to your original thread.
Good luck - Thanks Sphardy, well I tried fixing it :) but I think if it corrupts again I've had enough of this, as you said last time it's best to have a fresh sparse bundle so I have been trying to delete it of course thats impossible too! And found a thread that shows how to do it with Remote, thats the reason I was trying to get that going too.
So after what seems months of trying I have a Time machine that might not work, my shares have disappeared and I can't seem to fix any of it without learning more Terminal commands. At least with a Time Capsule or a AEBS I can load the bundle and delete it! A pity though as I don't just use it for sparse bundles I use it for all our family video files, mind you it was always too slow to play them.
Thanks again for all the help trying to get the ReadyNas working properly. - You can load & delete a sparsebundle on your NAS in *exactly* the same way as any other device - Apple included. But deleting sparsebundles over a network via AFP and finder is notoriously slow irrespective of the target device. Command line is the quickest and requires only basic knowledge - but there at other ways too that are often mentioned in this forum, though I've never seen any that requires Remote
Your frustration is being taken out on the ReadyNAS which probably isnt actually the root cause of your issue. Though it's hard to tell as you now seem to be suffering and reporting multiple issues as one (performance, lack of share access, remote support, TM issues, anything else?)
Send me a PM of when you're available and ichat details and I can take you through it - unless of course you have decided to switch, in which case again good luck - Using Remote for this is pointless unless you are accessing from a Remote site. Remote provides you remote secure access to your ReadyNAS as if you were on the same local network as the NAS.
You can create a new Remote user here: https://remote.readynas.com/index.jsp?pid=4
If you are going to go with an Apple product go with the Time Capsule. I'm pretty sure with the increased requirements, an AEBS won't work for Time Machine backups from a Lion machine. You'll still likely have TM problems using a Time Capsule due to the very buggy half-baked nature of Apple's Time Machine backups to networked drives on Lion.
As for your performance issues what drives are you using? Are you using ethernet or wireless to connect to the NAS? If connecting over wireless, then your wireless connection is the bottleneck to performance. - Yes, this is unbelievable. The ReadyNAS support page for ReadyNAS Remote does not have a link for the Lion-compatible utility. Then, after locating the Lion version on the Downloads page, installing it functions only so far as installing the Mac utility. No setup wizard appears. Nothing. Creating a user account with ReadyNAS Remote is impossible. The instructions dictate that after installing the utility, a configuration wizard will automagically appear. No such thing appears. If you didn't post the URL for the ReadyNAS Remote page for creating a new user account, there would be no way for a user to get ReadyNAS Remote working.
This issue STILL is not fixed either in the installer or the links on the support page.
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