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Whatever name i choose for a new share is invalid
I have a strange problem. I just installed my ReadyNAS NV+ v2 and now I'm trying to create a few shares. It seems to be impossible. Whatever name i try for my shares, I get the same reply: "Invalid sh...
At the risk of going "Me too!" I just got my shiny new NV+ v2, did a factory reset and got the same problem.
A couple of things were "not completely normal" about my situation ... I wonder if any of these are common to others with this problem.
When I first plugged the disk in (which already had a partition on it - I assumed the NAS would wipe it anyway) and switched on the NAS wouldn't boot, complaining about corrupt root, I had to delete the partition manually.
The NAS shipped with an older firmware which it updated on first factory reset.
After first factory reset (through the boot menu), RAIDar never went through "Creating Volume" or "File system check" (of course, as it was the first time I'd been through I didn't realise that this was odd) and under the "System" tab, Volumes was blank. Interestingly, I think there was a green light under "Volume" at the time. Of course, now that I've had the problems, found this form and tried a second factory reset (through the ReadyNAS web interface) I notice that it probably should have gone through that.
When going through setup after the first reset, another oddity I noticed was "Host Name" and "Workgroup" initially coming up blank (second time around they were pre-filled with default info) and they didn't stick (after setup, at the system tab they were still blank).
After the first reset, the "Backup" share under Windows Explorer (after mapping as a network drive) was claiming only 4gb of capacity, it's now claiming the correct figure of almost 2TB (the NAS has a single 2TB drive in it thus far).
Funnily enough, after the second reset (through the web interface), even though the front panel and RAIDar seemed to think everything had come up (volume light green, front panel showing IP address and free/total capacity), any attempt to go into the web interface was, for a while, met with "Device is offline, please wait" ... odd, given the device is obviously "online" enough to give me a web interface telling me it's offline (with, unhelpfully, no indication as to what it's doing offline). After a while though it came back and now it's all looking a lot more sensible.
At any rate it's all working now (at least I can create shares) ... now to test if the rest of it is behaving.
A couple of things were "not completely normal" about my situation ... I wonder if any of these are common to others with this problem.
When I first plugged the disk in (which already had a partition on it - I assumed the NAS would wipe it anyway) and switched on the NAS wouldn't boot, complaining about corrupt root, I had to delete the partition manually.
The NAS shipped with an older firmware which it updated on first factory reset.
After first factory reset (through the boot menu), RAIDar never went through "Creating Volume" or "File system check" (of course, as it was the first time I'd been through I didn't realise that this was odd) and under the "System" tab, Volumes was blank. Interestingly, I think there was a green light under "Volume" at the time. Of course, now that I've had the problems, found this form and tried a second factory reset (through the ReadyNAS web interface) I notice that it probably should have gone through that.
When going through setup after the first reset, another oddity I noticed was "Host Name" and "Workgroup" initially coming up blank (second time around they were pre-filled with default info) and they didn't stick (after setup, at the system tab they were still blank).
After the first reset, the "Backup" share under Windows Explorer (after mapping as a network drive) was claiming only 4gb of capacity, it's now claiming the correct figure of almost 2TB (the NAS has a single 2TB drive in it thus far).
Funnily enough, after the second reset (through the web interface), even though the front panel and RAIDar seemed to think everything had come up (volume light green, front panel showing IP address and free/total capacity), any attempt to go into the web interface was, for a while, met with "Device is offline, please wait" ... odd, given the device is obviously "online" enough to give me a web interface telling me it's offline (with, unhelpfully, no indication as to what it's doing offline). After a while though it came back and now it's all looking a lot more sensible.
At any rate it's all working now (at least I can create shares) ... now to test if the rest of it is behaving.
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