No matter what I try, I just can't get the readynas remote clients for Android or Windows 7 to work. FTP is set up correctly, as FTP clients work fine. On Android, I can see my NAS, but when I click on it, I get an FTP connection error ("cannot establish FTP connection..."). In Windows 7, the readynas remote client process starts, but the GUI does not launch. When I first installed the client in Windows, the GUI would start, but upon exit, the process remained running (even after killing the process manually and trying to restart the client). Now I don't get anything.
Edit: Re-installing the Windows client for a third time enabled me to log in successfully. However, when I click on "connect to ReadyNAS" I can't see my NAS or my shares. Just a blank window. To reiterate, I can see/access the share folders remotely via FTP and locally over Windows networking.
Does the Android client support Ice Cream Sandwich 4.04?
Kind of ironic how it is easier to manually configure FTP than to use the Addons that were supposedly created to simplify quick remote shares access...
I got the Win 7 ReadyNAS Remote client to work! All I needed to do was set a static IP for the NAS. I have a Dlink DIR-655 router. I reserved an IP address for the NAS within the specified DHCP range, then changed the NAS IP to this static IP. The strange thing is that I didn't end up changing the IP.
I entered the exact same network settings (subnet mask/default gateway,etc) as was obtained automatically, but for some reason, changing the setting from "automatically obtain IP" to "static IP" on the ReadyNAS allowed the Remote client to see the NAS.
Still no luck with the Android client on ICS 4.04. I can see my NAS, but I get "could not establish FTP connection". Even though an FTP client on the same Android device can access the ReadyNAS FTP server. Guess I'll give up on the Android client for now..
I'm running the client on Android 4.0.3 so can confirm that the app does work on ICS. I also initially had problems though which were due to the fact I had set the Share access via FTP to be only for a specific user, rather than a default to everyone (for security reasons). If you are the sam,e then as well as setting FTP access under the Share option, you also need to go into the System option then set FTP Authentication Mode to User. Does this help?
FTP authentication mode was already set to "user". I can't remember if I tried when it was set to the default "anonymous" setting. However, having an open FTP server on a NAS that is left on most of the time is not very useful in my opinion.
First of all, the ready NAS remote peer-2-peer server is authenticating correctly as I'm able to login using my credentials.
When I change the port on the FTP server setting in the NAS configuration (frontview?) to anything other than the default 21 (for listening), I get "ftp connection error" on my Android device. So this leads me to believe that for iPhone and Android clients, you need to use port 21, correct? The PC client seems to work fine on any port, however.
BUT when using port 21 for FTP, instead of getting "ftp connection error" It looks like it is about to work, then I simply get this error "221 Goodbye" What does that mean?
Again, the strange thing is that when I try any old FTP client on the same Android device, I can access the NAS shares no problem, on whatever port I choose to set in the NAS FTP settings.
Has anyone got the Remote client to work on Android?
Sorry for all the posts, but I got the Android client to work. I changed the FTP setting in the client by holding down the NAS icon. The only thing you can do here is enter in your FTP user/password and toggle between "anonymous" and "user mode". It was already set to "user" mode, so I thought it was a dead end. But toggling to anonymous mode and then re-toggling back to user prompted me to re-enter credentials.
For some reason, this time it worked! Now if only it would work on a port other than 21...
Is there anyway to stream files with the Android client? Without this functionality, it doesn't really do anything for you any FTP client would...
