Netgear NAS Incompatibility with Apple OS 10.68

[richardfinegold]

I am not good with computers, but I need to store a large part of my collection for space reasons. I bought a Netgear NAS (RAID, 3 TB) and it won't recognize my MacBook.
I will try it with a Windows laptop tomorrow when I bring one home from my office, but in my experience, if something doesn't work with Mac, and is suppossedly with Mac, Linnux and Windows, it won't work with anything.
I am tempted to ship back the NAS, but does anyone have any useful suggestions?

[MrGongGong]

Assuming you have checked the cables etc
I would think that its a dud

[Resurrection Man]

Richard, going to need a little more information such as version of the Netgear...is it ReadyNAS, for example? What version of OS are you running. Have you tried leaving the NAS not connected to your MacBook, turning both on and then connecting the NAS?

It's not necessarily faulty.

On the subject of your Netgear...there is RAID and there is RAID and then again there is RAID. I am guessing that the reason you went down this route is that you believe you can 'eliminate' the need for backing up? Is that correct? Apologies if I have this wrong.

[richardfinegold]

Assuming you have checked the cables etc
I would think that its a dud

I have, etc.

[richardfinegold]

Richard, going to need a little more information such as version of the Netgear...is it ReadyNAS, for example? What version of OS are you running. Have you tried leaving the NAS not connected to your MacBook, turning both on and then connecting the NAS?

It's not necessarily faulty.

On the subject of your Netgear...there is RAID and there is RAID and then again there is RAID. I am guessing that the reason you went down this route is that you believe you can 'eliminate' the need for backing up? Is that correct? Apologies if I have this wrong.

It is ready NAS, and OS X 10.68
I chose RAID because I thought it would give me 1 more back up option, but I am still intending to back everything up to an additional external drive.

[johnb]

I chose RAID because I thought it would give me 1 more back up option, but I am still intending to back everything up to an additional external drive.

Wise man.

RAID does not eliminate the need for backups. Depending on the version of RAID used it only protects against loosing data if one of the hard drives fails. It doesn't protect against the NAS failing, being stolen, damaged, etc, etc.

[Resurrection Man]

johnb....you saw where I was going with my question!

Richard...looks like it's not as straightforward as you might like in the setting up. This forum seems to be the place to go but admittedly is a bit techy.

http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=5029

Looks like you need to use something like CIFS (not familiar with that).

On the bright side, you're running Snow Leopard (Lion seems to have issues)

Have you run the RAIDar program?

[richardfinegold]

johnb....you saw where I was going with my question!

Richard...looks like it's not as straightforward as you might like in the setting up. This forum seems to be the place to go but admittedly is a bit techy.

http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=5029

Looks like you need to use something like CIFS (not familiar with that).

On the bright side, you're running Snow Leopard (Lion seems to have issues)

Have you run the RAIDar program?

I ran the RAIDer program, then put a Windows computer in the system, same problem. Called Netgear (3 day process--gave up waiting the first two days) and yes, the unit is defective, and I returned it today.

I tried earlier just backing up files to an external hard drive, but couldn't play them back. Something about i tunes that I fail to understand; apparently besides the files some other itunes data has to be backed up as well...I was hoping that a NAS server might be better because the software might make it easier to play back the music...I think I am giving up.

[Resurrection Man]

Don't give up, Richard. Go out and buy a copy of SuperDuper. You can set up a schedule and it will backup all the files that you need to your external hard drive. It even allows you to boot off your external drive in the event that your main computer goes doo-lally. And it works.

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Have you got this working?

I have a Netgear Pro which works with both Windows (NTFS) and Linux machines (CIFS). It even works happily with an example of the ADFS filing system used for the Acorn/ARM range of computers. It can seem like an awesome piece of machinery, but remember that's because it's designed for users ranging from domestic use all the way up to small businesses where it can serve as a print server and a web server.

I've never tried working with Apple, but under Raidar>Services I see there's an option to enable AFS which is apparently specific to Apple computers. But on the Services menu, it's quite simple really: if in doubt, enable everything!

Where you might be mystified is in the Raidar>Shares sub-menu. When I first had the beast I struggled to locate all the required options.

I've always found the Netgear help desk excellent.