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Character encoding, Codepages, SMB/CIFS and NFS
We've got 4 ReadyNAS in operation. The 2 oldest units run RAIDiator: v4.1.16 with Samba v.3.6.25 and cannot be upgraded anymore. Microsoft finally decided to dump SMBv1 and all machines on our network got upgraded to a life without SMBv1 hence the 2 old NAS were no longer available to the network. To resolve this issue we decided to enable NSF and disable SMB/CIFS. Microsoft was nice enough to include the NSF-Client and server in their updates. This way we can keep them units on the Network and in production as redundant backups of backups - we first thought. We we're able to map the shares to Windows 10, read and write data for testing, etc. all is operational. So far so good and almost too nice to be true. But there is a problem! Folder- & file-names that use special characters changed their appearance. For instance all Umlaut like äöü became double characters. eg. the letter "ü" displays as double character "ü" in NSF-client. Yep it's an issue directly related to varying codepages. Apparently the NAS OS (RAIDiator) uses varying codepages for SMB/CIFS and NSF. The option for language selection in Frontview is missleading. To be on the safe side one would have to select english ASCII. By selecting any Unicode option incompatibility between SMB/CIFS and NFS filesystems/protocols gets in effect without any mention. This is not documented by Neatgear (at least we could not find anyting). We assume we're not the first and only customers experiencing this senselessness and would like to learn wether there is a solution that we might have missed. Looking forward to receiving responses.
RND2000v1 (ReadyNAS Duo v1) alternate protocol (trying to get rid of SMBv1)
I have 2 2012R2 servers and WIN 7 or WIN 10 PCs only in this network. I want to disable SMBv1 for security purposes. Is there an alternative protocol I can use so my PCs and Servers can access this NAS? I remove SMBv1 from my servers and I cannot access the device. I re-installed it on 1 and I can access the NAS from that server. Is there an update or firware to allow for SMBv2/3 for a Windows network?
Help - Readynas Ultra 4 Plus - I think the Data is okay, but the Readynas is not functioning
So an HVAC tech came out and flip the circuit breakers without my knowledge. Now my Readynas Ultra 4 Plus is not functioning properly. At first I could see it on PC. i could navigate to it by IP and by Hostname. however when I double clicked on one of the shares, it would error out with "network name no longer available." I did a quick google search and saw something about DLNA, however I don't even have DLNA enabled. So thought I do some troubleshooting. I tried to update the firmware and even though I am positive that I downloaded the correct firmware, the GUI states that the firmware file is not supported with this architecture. Update over the internet doesn't work at all, it just sits there when I click the button. So then I thought, hmm, why don't i try disabling CIFS and re-enabling. Now it won't re-enable at all. Raidar reports everything is healthy. The ReadyNas Admin page also seems like everything is okay, However I just can't access the data. For isntance, the home page shows Volume c: Online, X-Raid2, 4 disks, 99% of 5543gb used. Also the health page shows everything as OK. There is nothing in the logs. So what are my options? What would be the best way to get my data? 1) Can I go and get 4 blank drives.. Restore to factory? Then try to put my old drives back in? 2) Do i have to get something like ReClaime or R-Studio to recover my data? b) If so is there any good step by step guide on how to do it? I wish there was a way to do restore the OS to factory without losing the data. I am sure the Raid Partition is in tact, it's just the OS is malfunctioning. Please any help would be greatly appreciated.