I have a new to me ReadyNAS 628x now running version 6.10.9. It was running 6.10.10 and the Installed Apps and Available Apps were not functioning. I saw that the App store has been retired. I downgraded to 6.10.9 and now have options for Plex and Resilio Sync. I was able to finally get Plex working after updating Plex. But I couldn't update Plex while on 6.10.10. After downgrading to 6.10.9 I was able to update Plex and get it working. How do I find other apps to install? Please note that I know nothing about Linux and understand that I need to modify some thing to potentially point to an old repository? Any detailed steps on how to get me up and running I would greatly appreciate.
I have one on my PC and I tried to re-direct the downloads folder to a newly created folder on the NAS, but it told me I can't save to a network share. Thanks for your help in this.
You can map a drive letter on the PC to a NAS share, and that should work for this particular software.
FWIW, I personally don't run apps on my NAS. I run them on an always-on PC that has NAS shares mapped to drive letters. One reason I use that approach is that it allows me to upgrade my application server and my storage independently. The PC has a GPU, so can handle plex transcoding better than the NAS.
Of course many people do run apps - just keep in mind that many are old, and over time you won't be able to update them since Debian 8 is deprecated (so needed libraries aren't being built for it).
While Netgear has taken down their apps page, the download links in this archived page still work:
I have a new to me ReadyNAS 628x now running version 6.10.9. It was running 6.10.10 and the Installed Apps and Available Apps were not functioning. I saw that the App store has been retired. I downgraded to 6.10.9 and now have options for Plex and Resilio Sync.
One thing with 6.10.10 that does work with Plex (so far anyway) is downloading the deb file from plex, and then installing it as if it were a ReadyNAS firmware update. The other options are to use ssh or just stick with 6.10.9
However there is an underlying issue - the version of Debian Linux that the NAS uses has been deprecated and archived by the Debian community. There is a guide here that doesn't require linux knowledge:
Thanks for the prompt response! I will look at the steps you described this weekend. As far as what apps I'd like to use, I have no idea. This is a whole new thing for me. I've never owned a NAS. My main goal was to get Plex up and running and it is finally. With that said, I'd like to see what options I have available to me. I'd definitely like to get a peer to peer file sharing client (apparently, I can't use the T word). I have one on my PC and I tried to re-direct the downloads folder to a newly created folder on the NAS, but it told me I can't save to a network share. Thanks for your help in this.
I have one on my PC and I tried to re-direct the downloads folder to a newly created folder on the NAS, but it told me I can't save to a network share. Thanks for your help in this.
You can map a drive letter on the PC to a NAS share, and that should work for this particular software.
FWIW, I personally don't run apps on my NAS. I run them on an always-on PC that has NAS shares mapped to drive letters. One reason I use that approach is that it allows me to upgrade my application server and my storage independently. The PC has a GPU, so can handle plex transcoding better than the NAS.
Of course many people do run apps - just keep in mind that many are old, and over time you won't be able to update them since Debian 8 is deprecated (so needed libraries aren't being built for it).
While Netgear has taken down their apps page, the download links in this archived page still work:
After going to the URL you posted, I downloaded everything that was available and tried to install everything. Most failed, but several worked. I've disabled all of them because right now all I cared about was getting Plex up and running. But I will explore what these apps can do. Thank you so much for your assistance!
Milestone Arcus installed, but won't do anything for you. It requires a license from Netgear, and Netgear stopped selling them in 2018. So you should remove that one.
I also suggest removing TFTP. That is a very old file transfer protocol that has literally no security or authentication. You already SMB, NFS, and FTP available in the NAS, so you have no need for TFTP. All it will do is create a security vulnerability in your system.
