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ReadyNAS Pro 6 – admin page and more inaccessible after upgrade to 6.5.0
Hi, I tried to upgrade our great woking ReadyNAS Pro 6 from 4.2.28 to 6.5.0. After that and reboot, it is visible with RAIDar 6 and shows "Healthy" with an IP address but no volume nor any size. I connected it directly to a Mac running OS 10.10.5. Selected DHCP and renewed DHCP lease. The RAIDar tells the IP address is 169.254.240.231 with all 6 drives OK. Mac says its IP address is 166.254.159.87 with subnet mask 255.255.0.0. The RAIDar button Offline Setup (LAN) leads to FireFox 169.254.240.231/admin – no connection (or similar after translation).
The ReadyNAs is visible on theNetgear widget, saying OK but also here no volume, no size, shown.
The ReadyNAS has 6 drives which where about 98 % full before upgrade. However. it had not expanded to its full potential size due to the limitations of the system (8 TB max expansion after installation). There is not anything special installed. It is mostly for TimeMachine backup jobs for a local Mac network.
Anyway, the RAIDar Offline Setup button works. I now get to the login screen at 169.254.130.187 and it answers "ReadyNAS admin". However, I am not able to login with the factory standard login admin and password (in the instruction manual) nor with my admin password.
Have you tried using "admin" with "password" as the password?
However, it persists to select a IP address in the range 169.254.X.Y no matter what I select in the network settings of my MacBook Pro (Fixed IP, DHCP with fixed IP, DHCP).
Is the NAS always directly connected to your Macbook? Or is it usually connected to your router?
The network settings you are playing with affect how the Macbook gets its own IP address. They won't affect how the NAS gets its IP address.
Re: ReadyNAS Pro 6 – admin page and more inaccessible after upgrade to 6.5.0
Hi StephenB, thanks for your answer.
I used the PREP4TOR6_0.1-x86.bin and the R4toR6_latest.bin to do the upgrade. Then the Netgear widget displayed a Volume 2 - 0 MB and Volume 3 – 0 MB but no Volume 1 after upgrade. Above those (where the volume 1 message possible could have been hiding) there was a message saying that data was most likeky lost on volume 2 and 3. I waited more than 2 days (without any visible difference) before shutting down with the front switch (two short presses) and restart. It counts up to 100 % and said No IP. ( No % free shown).
It never came up on my LAN with fixed adresses like 192.168.6.4 as it used to be.
Thus I connected it directly to a MacBook Pro and switched the Mac to DHCP. The ReadyNAS will boot and automatically select an IP-adresse like 169.254.X.Y where X and Y varies for each reboot. (There is no connection to our normal LAN now except to the MacBook Pro for configurating.) My intention was to use this setup just to be able and change the IP by using the /admin page but I cannot get there.
If I set the Mac to DHCP with fixed address like 192.168.168.100 the ReadyNAS refuses to boot in that subnet and always selects a random 169.254... address. If I type 164.254.18.194/admin in FireFox, nothing will happen.
If I type "smb://164.254.18.194/admin" i will receive a normal login and password screen but are not able to login, neither with normal password nor with the netgear startup from beginning passward. However, I get a message: There was a problem connecting to the server ...
Re: ReadyNAS Pro 6 – admin page and more inaccessible after upgrade to 6.5.0
Hi StephenB, thanks for your answer.
Yes, I used the R4toR6_latest.bin to do the upgrade. The Netgear widget displayed a Volume 2 - 0 MB and Volume 3 – 0 MB but no Volume 1 after upgrade. Above those (where volume 1 possible could have been hiding) there was a message saying that data was most likeky lost on volume 2 and 3. I waited more than 2 days before shutting down with the front switch and rebooted.
It never cames up on my LAN with fixed adresses like 192.168.6.4 as it used to be. Thus I connected it directly to a MacBook Pro and switched the Mac to DHCP. The ReadyNAS will boot and automatically select an IP-adress. always like 169.254.X.Y where X and Y varies for each reboot. There is no connection to our normal LAN now. My intention was to use this setup just to be able to change the IP by using the /admin page but I cannot get there. If I set the Mac to DHCP with fixed address like 192.168.168.100 the ReadyNAS refuses to boot in that subnet.
Direct connected Mac with DHCP and 169.254.X.100:
If I enter 169.254.X.Y in FireFox, it does not answer. However, smb://169.254.X.Y initiates the login page but I'm not able to login (message: There was a problem connecting to the server 169.254.X.Y). Tried usual login + passwards and also the setup out of the box login.
Re: ReadyNAS Pro 6 – admin page and more inaccessible after upgrade to 6.5.0
Hi cpu8088,
The problem is I never get access to the admin page. The RAIDar button " Offline Setup" starts FireFox with the 169.254.X.Y/admin address but there is no connection.
Re: ReadyNAS Pro 6 – admin page and more inaccessible after upgrade to 6.5.0
Installing the Prep R4 to R6 add-on before installing the R4 to R6 add-on avoids the need to do a manual factory default via the boot menu. It sounds like you didn't install the PrepR4toR6 add-on so you will need to use the boot menu as StephenB described.
Re: ReadyNAS Pro 6 – admin page and more inaccessible after upgrade to 6.5.0
Thanks all helpful folks!
I installed the add-on PREP4TOR6_0.1-x86.bin when running 4.2.28 before installing R4toR6_latest-beta.bin. At least I thought so, maybe I did something incomplete?
I have factory resetted now and it says 99 % free on the front panel.
However, it persists to select a IP address in the range 169.254.X.Y no matter what I select in the network settings of my MacBook Pro (Fixed IP, DHCP with fixed IP, DHCP).
Anyway, the RAIDar Offline Setup button works. I now get to the login screen at 169.254.130.187 and it answers "ReadyNAS admin". However, I am not able to login with the factory standard login admin and password (in the instruction manual) nor with my admin password. After attempts the ReadyNAS answers"Reset Password. Sorry, password recovery has not been set ...".
Anyway, the RAIDar Offline Setup button works. I now get to the login screen at 169.254.130.187 and it answers "ReadyNAS admin". However, I am not able to login with the factory standard login admin and password (in the instruction manual) nor with my admin password.
Have you tried using "admin" with "password" as the password?
However, it persists to select a IP address in the range 169.254.X.Y no matter what I select in the network settings of my MacBook Pro (Fixed IP, DHCP with fixed IP, DHCP).
Is the NAS always directly connected to your Macbook? Or is it usually connected to your router?
The network settings you are playing with affect how the Macbook gets its own IP address. They won't affect how the NAS gets its IP address.
Re: ReadyNAS Pro 6 – admin page and more inaccessible after upgrade to 6.5.0
No, the prep add-on is to be installed first. This is to configure the root volume so that when the R4toR6 image (OS6 firmware with a different header so that RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x accepts it as a valid firmware image to update to) is installed afterwards a factory default will be triggered at the right time.
I haven't tested installing the add-on then updating direct to 6.5.0 beta though so it is possible that if things have changed that the add-on may no longer help, but I doubt it.
