GoFlex Home not accessible

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rhnelson

Please read the thread, and at least follow the net console steps.

Also, how big is your drive?

[zafg]

Hi,

Did the router assign an IP address to the device?

Regards

[rhnelson]

Thanks for the reply.

I am using Ubuntu to try this update.

1. Concerning the question: Did the router assign an IP address to the device?

I did all three "sudo ifconfig eth0:x ..." commands. Ubuntu seemed to take these commands fine. I can ping the 10.10.10.5 but the command nc -lu 10.10.10.2 6666" never return.

2. Concerning the question: Please read the thread, and at least follow the net console steps.

The instructions I used are from the Installation tab at http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... oflex-home
. These instructions are in 2 sections. The top section list the steps to install the new firmware. These steps ended with resetting the Goflex. I did this. The second section, at the bottom, list the steps to do after you log back in. On THIS page I did not see any steps to help log back in. I tried accessing using my "old" IP address. No luck.

On this same page is an Advance tab. Are the "things" on this page part of the instructions?

3. Concerning the question: Also, how big is your drive?

My Goflex Home is a 1 Tb unit.

Other comments: While doing the installation portion sometimes a command/step would cause a prompt to come back indicating I should log out and restart the system. Since I was not at the end I kept doing the following steps. I did not get any what I would call real errors messages. The steps were simple and straight forward.

Unless someone can provide other things to try, I was planning on trying the re-install the OEM firmware this weekend and try the installing the firmware again.

On another thread about getting the firmware installed there was a comment about reducing the primary 1 partition suggested +20G. What would be a good value. My goal is a simple NAS for my family to use to share files. I do not need a media server. Just a simpleNas.

Thanks for the comments and question. I doublecheck each line I entered but probably missed something.

[moonman]

You should start with netconsole and post your log here

[rhnelson]

What do you mean by "You should start with netconsole and post your log here" ? Are you asking me to log my attempts to log into the Goflex? I do not understand.

Again on the web page containing the instruction to flash my firmware.... The top section gives instructions to flash. The bottom section give post installation instructions.

It seems to me that there is a middle set of instruction missing which would explain how to locate the device on your home network and how to get to the login prompt.

Apparently these missing, to me, instruction are either not needed by everyone else OR they are listed on another page.

Thanks again. Sorry if I am confused.

[moonman]

Sorry I was reading this on my phone and I missed the second page of this discussion

The nc command shouldn't return because it's "listening" for things that the plug sends to it.

the DHCP log isn't that important here (nc -lu 10.10.10.2 6666). In Ubuntu open 2 terminal windows (after you do ifconfig stuff) and in one type in `nc -lu 10.10.10.5 6666` and in the other `nc -lu 10.10.10.4 6666`, then turn on your GoFlex and you should start seeing thing getting sent to one terminal and then the other. Post whatever the output is.

I am not sure what you mean by login prompt, there's no gui anymore, everything is done over ssh. How would you locate the plug on your network... the same way you located it the first time to install archlinux.

[rhnelson]

Thanks for the comments Moonman. I did the ifconfig commands (more about this below) and did the "nc" command in two windows as you suggested. Powered on the Goflex. During powerup, LED blinking, were no messages on either window. After LED went solid still no messages.

Questions concerning doing the "ifconfig" and "nc" commands. Should I do the "sudo ifconfig eth0:0 10.10.10.x", where x=5,4, one after another in the same windows. When I do these commands and then use the "ifconfig" command I see that eth0:0 is set to whichever "x" was just done. Since I did x=4 last then the "nc -lu 10.10.10.4 6666" command give no error but in another terminal window the command "nc -lu 10.10.10.5 6666" gives the error "nc: Cannot assign requested address".

My last try was 1. Open two terminal windows. In window 1 do the "sudo ifconfig" command for "4". Then did the "nc" command for "4". Then in the other window did the same as window 1 except for "5". Powered up the Goflex. No messages.

I guess I am not understanding how to do/use the commands listed in your comments and the website "Advance" tab.

Also my comment about "login" was a generic comment. I realize I will need to either ssh, sh, telnet, or something, via the command line, to get back into the Goflex.

Thanks for your help.
Randy

[moonman]

It looks that you are reassigning IP addresses to the same alias on the eth interface. Notice that the command is of the type ifconfig eth0:<alias> <ip>

sudo ifconfig eth0:0 10.10.10.5
sudo ifconfig eth0:1 10.10.10.4
sudo ifconfig eth0:2 10.10.10.2

According to what you said above you reassigned ip to alias 0 (eth0:0) so that's why the 2 nc's fail and one doesn't.

if the light went solid then it probably boots up. If you can't find the ip address of your plug then look in the DHCP table on your router, use an IP scanner and scan for port 22, or take the hardrive out, connect it to a computer running linux and edit /etc/rc.conf and assign a static IP to the plug.

[rhnelson]

Moonman ... Thanks for your help. Yes I missed the "0:x" values. Thanks for pointing this out. Did not need this thought. Was able to scan my network; find the "new" ip address; and ssh in.

Now need to read on how to setup smb to make my NAS.

A suggestion would be to add comments to the "Installation" instructions. Perhaps between the top and bottom section add one line to indicate the user needs to scan their network to determine the devices new IP address. Perhaps even syntax to "ssh" back in. I realize the difficulties of writing instruction. Too much or too little information.

Thanks again.
Randy

[rhnelson]

SOLVED ...
Thanks for all the help.
Randy