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Disappointed
I bought a fully outfitted ReadyNAS 214. It surely looked niceand emanated the aura of quality. I installed it in my WLAN and after trying it out for 2 days, I sent it back. It was a very frustrating experience. 1. Terrific problems with my passeword. Sometimes it accepted it, sometimes it didn't. I was very careful when entering it. Sometimes the login window would simply reapper and I was completely at a loss of what was wrong. No hint was given (e.g. Password wrong, wrong user name, etc.). it would simply reappear and prompt me for a new try. After about 30 tries it locked up and denied me access entirely. It said in a message: "Due to security reasons password cannot be restored..." (or some such). So, it completely locked me out of my own data on the four RAID 5 drives. 2. You click into the NAS 214 page and nothings happens. It usually takes 2 minutes to respond. Again, no clue what's going on. Of course you click again, and suddenly the whole window is gone. That is so annoying. Especielly since I have a new and well functioning WLAN. 3. It did the "drag and drop" thing to get files into my NAS 214. After a while (no clue, no progress bar, ...nothing) it started, but suddenly broke off after having copied about a hundred files. There was a message on top with a big red "X" to say "....could not be uploaded". There were still 5 TB space availabe. Repeating this attempt over and over yielded the same outcomes. 4. Somehow I got it to mirror some directories on my C drive (Documents, Pictures, Videos, and a few more). But when I opened these mirrored directories on my NAS 214, they were incomplete. Less than one percent hat arrived. I suspected that it would take long, but after 24 h they were just as incomplete and had not progressed any further. WTF? When I entered a new file on these "mirrored" direcories, they never appeard on my NAS 214. Isn't it the main purpose of a NAS to secure the data? 5. The Netgear UI offers no clues or tips, no explanations, no progress bars, it just goes static. It just assumes you "know". This I can do without.
New RN202 with a Mac Questions
I am just setting up a new ReadyNAS 202 and am having several issues. I have set up the admin account and also set myself up as a separate account as a "User" so I can interact from my Mac as a regular user but now I'm questioning if I need that account since I see that my admin ID (the ID I used to create the ReadyCloud account) has a private Home folder already. I have also set up a user account for my wife but I cvan't figure out how to connect her account to ReadyCloud. In looking on line, it says there should be a place to enter her email address since it is already in the system but the only place to enter her email is to invite her for full access but that results in an error message that her email is already in the system. How do I get her remote access as a user registered in the system? How does she actually "sign in" to the system the first time so that her private Home folder is created? Finally (for now), I have the ReadyNAS listed on the Finder sidebar three times under the Shared section. One is for the SMB connection, one for the AFP protocol and one is just a general connection. Is there a way to remove two of them? Also, none of them show the private Home folder that is set up as part of my admin ReadyCloud account. I've been trying to figure this out for a couple fo days and I'm pretty frustrated. Any help would be appreciatred. Thanks.Solved