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Re: ReadyNas Ultra 2 Plus Unable to connect
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Good day to you all.
I bought from a second hand store a some years ago my ReadyNas Ultra 2 Plus since I always wanted a NAS system.
There were no disks or anything that came with the NAS, only the NAS itself and a power adapter.
At the time I was unable to get it to work and decided to look into it later.
In between I bought a Zyxel NAS and got that up and running just fine.
Now, I am trying to get it to work.
I scraped together 2x1TB hard disks and performed a factory reset as per manual instructions, afterwards I noticed HDD LED 2 was blinking and that it was unsuccesful, so I swapped the disks same result, then I read a forum post that the synchronization can take a few hours, so I let it work overnight and in the morning it was done.
Next I try to access the NAS, I see it in Windows Explorer:
ReadyNAS Ultra [nas-8B-33-20]
I click it and get a Chrome message saying I can´t access it, an unexpected error.
No biggy I look into my Router and find it´s IP address. 192.168.1.183.
I type that in chrome and use admin and netgear 1 as per manual and the only thing I see is Shares [No shares currently accessible] and Password to change the Password.
When using Raidar 6.5 [had to install Java to use it] it does not see it even though it´s on the network and accessible. Probably missing Resource CD for certificate installation.
I have come to the conclusion that I need the setup disk for the NAS but have been unable to find it online, if so that is my problem is there a way that I can download it?
Running on Windows 10 Home 20H2
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@stonemask wrote:
I have come to the conclusion that I need the setup disk for the NAS
No, that's not it.
@stonemask wrote:
I look into my Router and find it´s IP address. 192.168.1.183.
I type that in chrome and use admin and netgear 1 as per manual and the only thing I see is Shares [No shares currently accessible] and Password to change the Password.
Log in as https://192.168.1.183/admin
If you leave off the admin bit, you end up redirected to https://192.168.1.183/shares. That will only let you browse shares that have http access enabled. It isn't enable by default, so you are seeing an empty share list.
You will get a security warning from chrome (and other browsers) because the NAS uses a self-signed certficate. There's no easy way to avoid that, so I just click through it when the warning pops up.
As far as RAIDar goes, that should be seeing the NAS. I am thinking that there might be internet security software running on the PC that is blocking the discovery protocol it uses.
@stonemask wrote:
Running on Windows 10 Home 20H2
In order to access the shares with file explorer, you will have to enable the SMB 1 client on the PC. You do that by going into "turn windows features on or off". There are security implications - Windows will discourage you from turning it on. IMO it is safe to enable SMB 1 on a home network, but this is an area where people do disagree.
One option you have is to convert the Ultra to run OS 6 firmware - which supports SMB 3, and has a much newer linux kernel and more features. We can give you information here on how to do that. Though if you go forward, I also suggest that you upgrade the NAS stock memory from 1 GB to 2 GB.
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@stonemask wrote:
I have come to the conclusion that I need the setup disk for the NAS
No, that's not it.
@stonemask wrote:
I look into my Router and find it´s IP address. 192.168.1.183.
I type that in chrome and use admin and netgear 1 as per manual and the only thing I see is Shares [No shares currently accessible] and Password to change the Password.
Log in as https://192.168.1.183/admin
If you leave off the admin bit, you end up redirected to https://192.168.1.183/shares. That will only let you browse shares that have http access enabled. It isn't enable by default, so you are seeing an empty share list.
You will get a security warning from chrome (and other browsers) because the NAS uses a self-signed certficate. There's no easy way to avoid that, so I just click through it when the warning pops up.
As far as RAIDar goes, that should be seeing the NAS. I am thinking that there might be internet security software running on the PC that is blocking the discovery protocol it uses.
@stonemask wrote:
Running on Windows 10 Home 20H2
In order to access the shares with file explorer, you will have to enable the SMB 1 client on the PC. You do that by going into "turn windows features on or off". There are security implications - Windows will discourage you from turning it on. IMO it is safe to enable SMB 1 on a home network, but this is an area where people do disagree.
One option you have is to convert the Ultra to run OS 6 firmware - which supports SMB 3, and has a much newer linux kernel and more features. We can give you information here on how to do that. Though if you go forward, I also suggest that you upgrade the NAS stock memory from 1 GB to 2 GB.
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Re: ReadyNas Ultra 2 Plus Unable to connect
Thanks for you help. Managed to login finally, installed the lates raidator update and now Raidar see´s the ReadyNAS.
So thanks for your help. Will now try to get it up and running and will then find some RAM to upgrade with. It currently has 1GB DDR3.
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Re: ReadyNas Ultra 2 Plus Unable to connect
The ultra 2 has only one slot. I think the only option is to upgrade it to 2 GB - and that 4 GB won't work.
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Re: ReadyNas Ultra 2 Plus Unable to connect
That is correct. The processor can support 4GB, but only as 2GB per slot. And Netgear built the board without the second slot.