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joakimwg
Oct 01, 2014Aspirant
Windows share stopped working
Hi everyone, I've searched the forum but not been able to find any posts that help me solve my issue, if there are please direct me to them if not I'd really appreciate any input on how to solve th...
StephenB
Oct 02, 2014Guru - Experienced User
If you have ssh access that is another way.
Support can do it through the tech support mode. Though the warranty is 3 years, so you are likely past that.
Another approach is to shut down the NAS, and connect disk 1 to a PC (USB is fine) and copy the data off with linux reader (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/) which is free. Then factory reset the NAS, reconfigure it, and restore the data from the backup.
Support can do it through the tech support mode. Though the warranty is 3 years, so you are likely past that.
Another approach is to shut down the NAS, and connect disk 1 to a PC (USB is fine) and copy the data off with linux reader (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/) which is free. Then factory reset the NAS, reconfigure it, and restore the data from the backup.
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