Nov 19th 2008 09:50 am Promise NAS ns4300n Hacking!
I’ve had mine for about 9 months and have done everything I can to hack in to it with varying success. I’ve gotten telneted in to it and enabled rsync so that I can keep my music synchronized from my Linux laptop to it. My wife backs up her Windows Vista laptop to it nightly and it just runs. The native UPnP server that comes with it fuppes is good (especially with the latest update v1.01.0000.01) but I found that mediatomb is much more functional and recently found a package for it here. I’d like to keep it updated so I am going to start to do that here hopefully with the help of the mediatomb developers. You can download it from here. There is some information on the contents of the ppg file here. I’m going to try to hack the upg package (SR5 is out now) to see if I can get it to write the changes I make as part of the mediatomb service start permanent. If it works out I will post the hacked UPG file here.
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Robert on 27 Jan 2012 at 5:03 pm #
Dear Sir
I see you had dive a lot into the NS4300N Promise NAS.
Have you ever tried to connect the drives onto a linux box and mount the raid and the volume?
Is it possible?
Obviously this is for recovery reasons.
Thank you for any reply
Robert
geek on 01 May 2012 at 8:02 am #
No. It shouldn’t be too hard with the standard LVM tools.