FAQ
What provides your firmware?
My firmwares are created on the basis of the official firmares from LG. I've added some additional features like SSH, Telnet, SFTP, NFS, Twonky and Mediatomb. When you activate Twonky, Twonky will be downloaded and installed. (requires internet connection)
Which hardware is supported by your firmware?
My firmware has been tested on a LG N2R1DB2 NAS box. At the current state (firmware 2343) all N2R?1 products share the same firmware. So my firmware may work on N2B1 devices, too.
My update failed! What can I do now?
Shutdown your NAS-Box (press power button for about 3 secs). Press ← (left), → (right). While you are pressing left/right press power button again to start your NAS-Box. Release left/right, when “enclosure” is displayed. This will do a factory reset. WARNING: Everything will be deleted!
How do I get information about my current firmware?
Open the homepage of the webinterface → Version (see screenshots). My firmware ends with a “t”.
What's SSH?
SSH is a protocol to encrypt data connections. It's been used most times to get a shell on remote systems. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell
What are the authentication credentials?
How do I get a remote shell by SSH?
Start a SSH server on the NAS-Box and connect to it with a SSH client. On windows use e.g. PuTTY, on linux the command line tool “ssh”.
How do I start the SSH server?
Webinterface → Services → Shell → SSH → Enable.
What's telnet?
Telnet simple way to get an unencrypted shell of a remote computer. It's easy to use, because a telnet client is on most systems preinstalled. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet
How do I get a remote shell?
Open a shell on your local computer and type “telnet <ip-address>”.
How do I start the telnet server?
Webinterface → Services → Shell → Telnet → Enable.
How do I start and stop Twonky 4?
In Firmware 2642 the DLNA (LG) media server has been replaced with Mediaflu. Due to this, the Twonky 4 configuration page is no longer available. Please open the Twonky 4 configuration page directly (by opening e.g. http://lg-nas:8000/en/service/dlna.php in your browser) or disable Mediaflu (requires ExpertConfiguration-Package).
Discussion
Hi, does anyone know how to open the right port (firewall) for using ODBC connections to MySQL?
Please tell me exactly what I have to do since my Linux experience really is that poor.
HJave you figured out how to install? im am attempting with newer sbs beta that has Sql lite. I first haev a few obstacles to overcome from upgrading firmware.
Please read the comment of se at the bottom of N1T1.
When you upgrade firmware to latest version, do you loose previos contents on harddrive? harddrive a not appearing in menu and root password as specified in Faq does not allowe login.
Thansk!
If i can manage to get back harddrives and login as root, ias their a guide to installing teh newer SBS pkg with MySQL lite instead? comments a re reporting its easier to use??? faster on LG NAS??
I upgraded bu tost my 2 drives that were setup as JBOD. alos any help on installing newer sbs that used sql lite so one does not have to go through sql setup?
sorry meant to type i LOST the two JBOD drives after latest firmware update. Before this one I was on LG firmare from 2009 original to the NAS, never performed udtae until now.
When I download the latest Firmware update, I get a .sit file firmware_2647_1_0_0t.sit. Is this right? How do I make it into a .bin file?
Rename the file to ”.bin”.
I have a problem with the DDNS service. I keep getting: “DDNS is not working, Please check network setting”. Sometimes, it is working, and then, out of a sudden, without restarting the service or anything similar.. it stops. What can I do, and what are the settings to modify?
Great work ! Is it possible to enable LUKS encryption on N2R1 also (be it even without RAID support) ? I am desperate for this feature…
Will the custom 2660 firmware be out soon ? They have fixed AFP for OSX Lion now.
N2R1 is totally unusable with OS X Lion before firmware 2660, because: 1) AFP doesn't work
2) SMB on Lion is broken and painfully slow, write speed 5 MB/s (not due to the network configuration) You could istall samba3 via macports but that would break integration with Finder
3) NFS with Tantalus firmware doesn't work for writing
4) Copying files over SSH with tantalus firmware is even slower than SMB, speed is 2 MB/sec, both with Macfusion with SSHFS and with scp. Is this normal ? Is the CPU of N2R1 really so weak, that SSH encryption throttles transfer speed so much down ? Or is something in the custom firmware not running optimally ?
4) Macfusion with FTPFS has a turbo write speed of about 50 MB/s, but only works for copying small files (several hundred megabytes). Copying 1 GB file, for example, always fails in the middle and then you have to remount the volume manually.
After upgrading to the official 2660 firmware, AFP works with write speeds about 15 MB/s and read speeds about 30-40 Mb/s. This is the only viable option to use this device on OS X Lion for the time being.
Hi all!
I upgraded to the 2660 firmware , and would like to downgrade 2657 again. Does anybody know how this works?
Thanks