Setting new share issue

No, it refuses to set it as an AFO share tried clicking the button on and off restarting the device.

All in all so far I have to say readynas is shite.

Did you try enabling upnp?

Why would I want UPNP? I want an apple AFP share.

I was thinking it might allow discovery. I don't see a separate control for Bonjour in the manual, otherwise I would have suggested that.

I am having all sorts of issues not sure where to go next really.

AFP button in the dashboard thing simply does nothing, I have created a couple of shares, SAMBA show sup ok but AFP no dice.

I have also set an rysnc backup to another NAS, but after a while the readynas simply crashes, Its not a very good device. For me a NAS has to offer the user confidence their data is safe. Of course its not a back up, I know that but I need confidence its not going to be so flakey as to up may chances of failure.

Right now I am trying to find ways of backing it up because I am only confident its going to go tits up any minute, as it turns out even attaching USB drives is not easy, although it will happily recognise apple formatted drives, I am not allowed to write to them, Furthermore there does not appear to be a way to fromat the drive from withint the readynas software in order that I can write to it.

Not a great experience at all basically

What firmware version are you on?

Hi there. The latest one according to the device.

Something has gone very wrong, I am genuinely upset because I need to get the date off the drives. I have no trust for this device.

So in short at the minute I can access the device.

Backups cannot be performed, this area simply does not work. Adding backups now results in it starting then immediately stopping, it thinks its completed but its not. Trying to remove that back up does not work it remains in the dashboard.

So my only course of action is to download the files, however the device is not getting above 6-8MB/s download speed meaning I have literally days left to get the data safe.

the 1 2 3 4 on the front of the device is not lit up, the shares do not appear in the MAC finder anymore I have to manually connect to them.

All in all I think the device is in melt down. The major issue for me is getting the data off. I thought everything was sorted so wiped the back ups in order to slot them in an old NAS in order that I could back up from the readynas to the old NAS. This is when everything went wrong so I am currently reliant on the readynas not going totally south.

A total mess.

I was asked by support to download logs, when I attempt this the NAS crashes.

garethi wrote:
I was asked by support to download logs, when I attempt this the NAS crashes.

If you have SSH setup, you could get the logs manually most probably.

Send them the contents of /var/log, or If tar is misbehaving, they can probably get started with just /var/log/messages?

After speakig with a very nice chap from 'tier three' we found out a couple of issues.

UPNP was scanning my music folder and built up 3gigs worth of logs, which had basically crammed the flash memory.

SMB service had transmorfed into a file directory (or something)

So anyhow he did somethings and I can get back to the device. He recommended turning of UPNP, which I attempted to do, but it just sat there with a small spinning beach ball until eventually the nas crashed.

Great stuff these netgears. I shall never speak ill of Qnap again that for sure!