Need file repository for sharing large files
I am doing a project of digitizing my fathers old slides from the 60's during his 5 year Air Force posting to France. Couple thousand slides of camping trips throughout Europe and England. We trave...
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I've been quiet here the past few days.... I've been fiddle fooling around with an old toy.
One suggestion was literally within arms reach, sitting at my desk typing on my laptop.
Thank you STBRetired for the idea.
I had totally forgotten about my NAS unit. It has resided in the hutch of my desk for years. So I dragged it out, found the cables and such and plugged it in. It has been unplugged since I think early 2014, maybe longer, when I left the west coast. Used to run it on Win7.
I sorta remember back then that it was capable of hosting. I could send a link or something, people could grab a shared folder. Perfect.
So I plugged it into my Win10 machine, stuck an RJ45 into it and the router and fired it up.
Please enter your username and password. Uhhhh.... That was years ago... I have no idea what it is. Tried a few of my old ones I could remember but no cigar on that.
Did an OS reinstall, updated this and that, got into the thing.
Well, 7 year old technology, much is obsolete, safety protocols, certificates ad nauseum....
Finally got the thing so I could access it on my local network. Aha, thought I was away to the races. Nope! The internal apps that do various things are no longer in existence, nor are they supported.
Rats...
This is a wonderful little device, but it appears at this point I'm unable to do file sharing with it unless I can poke around and find a way to open a door to the internet with it.
I found out I need firmware something version 6, but that is only for newer devices. Can't put it on mine. I can go max ver 5.3.7 firmware...
Rats again...
It's a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo V2. I paid a fair chunk of change for it in 12 or 13, plus the 2 - 2tb drives I put in and set as a mirror RAID. This would be perfect if I can get it working the way I want.
Oh well, I forge ahead and I once again thank everyone for the input here. I'm not done with this NAS deal yet but may have to use it as a wheel chock or something.
One suggestion was literally within arms reach, sitting at my desk typing on my laptop.
Thank you STBRetired for the idea.
I had totally forgotten about my NAS unit. It has resided in the hutch of my desk for years. So I dragged it out, found the cables and such and plugged it in. It has been unplugged since I think early 2014, maybe longer, when I left the west coast. Used to run it on Win7.
I sorta remember back then that it was capable of hosting. I could send a link or something, people could grab a shared folder. Perfect.
So I plugged it into my Win10 machine, stuck an RJ45 into it and the router and fired it up.
Please enter your username and password. Uhhhh.... That was years ago... I have no idea what it is. Tried a few of my old ones I could remember but no cigar on that.
Did an OS reinstall, updated this and that, got into the thing.
Well, 7 year old technology, much is obsolete, safety protocols, certificates ad nauseum....
Finally got the thing so I could access it on my local network. Aha, thought I was away to the races. Nope! The internal apps that do various things are no longer in existence, nor are they supported.
Rats...
This is a wonderful little device, but it appears at this point I'm unable to do file sharing with it unless I can poke around and find a way to open a door to the internet with it.
I found out I need firmware something version 6, but that is only for newer devices. Can't put it on mine. I can go max ver 5.3.7 firmware...
Rats again...
It's a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo V2. I paid a fair chunk of change for it in 12 or 13, plus the 2 - 2tb drives I put in and set as a mirror RAID. This would be perfect if I can get it working the way I want.
Oh well, I forge ahead and I once again thank everyone for the input here. I'm not done with this NAS deal yet but may have to use it as a wheel chock or something.
