Shares lost from admin page

[bengsig]

My ReadyNAS 212 has lost all shares and I only see:

I have looked at other articles mentioning the same, and I have checked I am not running out of space.  And also, when I ssh to the system, I can see e.g. /data/Documents and /data/Music are there.  The latter is what I really care about with lots of music stored, Documents is empty.  If I then try to add a share called Music, it fails as it already exists, but I could e.g. add one called Music2.  After doing so, I can manually edit /etc/frontview/samba/shares.conf, and it then shows up on the outside, but still not on the admin page.  

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

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@bengsig wrote:

However, clicking update, I am told I am on the latest so I cannot upgrade to 6.10:

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First of all, you are seeing that message only because you've chosen to set "Check for Updates" to "long term stable" on the system->settings->update page.  You can just change that setting to "stable" and you will get 6.10.10

However, if you have apps installed, then I suggest stopping at 6.10.9.  6.10.10 removes the ability to install apps from the web admin apps page.

You can download 6.10.9 from here:

• https://kb.netgear.com/000065653/ReadyNAS-OS-Software-Version-6-10-9

Extract the firmware from the arm zip file, and then install it manually (system->settings, then press the "install firmware" button in the middle of the page.

[StephenB]

If you do not have a backup of the files, then it would be good to make one before proceeding further.

Have you checked for a full OS partition?

[Sandshark]

There is a script that can usually fix that.  But before you run it, you need to be sure you don't have a full OS partition, as the script needs space there to operate and running it without that space available can make matters worse.  And you need to make sure you have a backup in case what the script tries to fix isn't your issue.

[bengsig]

As I also wrote initially, I am not running out of space:

so the root partition has ample free space.  I also heard about the script mentioned, and would very much like to have it.

Thanks!

[StephenB]

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@bengsig wrote:

I also heard about the script mentioned, and would very much like to have it.

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This was written by a Netgear developer for support use some years ago.  Unfortunately, the last time I checked, the certificate had expired.

• https://gitlab.codycook.us/readynas-scripts/share_lun_ui_fix.sh

However, you can still run it using these steps:

# cd //
# wget --no-check-certificate https://gitlab.codycook.us/readynas-scripts/share_lun_ui_fix.sh/raw/master/share_lun_ui_fix.sh
# chmod +x ./share_lun_ui_fix.sh
# ./share_lun_ui_fix.sh

[Sandshark]

Or, you can just download it with your browser and put it on the NAS instead of using wget.  You still need to do the chmod to make it executable.  It's just a text script.  What you don't get, but bypassing certificate checking also does that, is some verification it's not been spoofed.

[bengsig]

Thanks a lot for pointing me at that script.  However, https://gitea.threefifteen.info/readynas-scripts/share_lun_ui_fix.sh/src/branch/master/README.md tells me I need to be on ReadyNAS OS 6.10.0 or newer, and my ReadyNAS 212 is on 6.9.6.  However, clicking update, I am told I am on the latest so I cannot upgrade to 6.10:

Any other suggestions?

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

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@bengsig wrote:

However, clicking update, I am told I am on the latest so I cannot upgrade to 6.10:

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First of all, you are seeing that message only because you've chosen to set "Check for Updates" to "long term stable" on the system->settings->update page.  You can just change that setting to "stable" and you will get 6.10.10

However, if you have apps installed, then I suggest stopping at 6.10.9.  6.10.10 removes the ability to install apps from the web admin apps page.

You can download 6.10.9 from here:

• https://kb.netgear.com/000065653/ReadyNAS-OS-Software-Version-6-10-9

Extract the firmware from the arm zip file, and then install it manually (system->settings, then press the "install firmware" button in the middle of the page.