Serial number requested once again
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 10:28 pm
Hi,
I just got a NAS and cannot do much with it. There are just too many things to setup just to get basic drive sharing, and then comes qnapCloud, which just fails, asking for a QNAP ID I don't know how to create. Searching for QNAP ID, I got clues about qnapCloud, tried to create an account, and am asked ONCE AGAIN to supply a serial number. I really cannot get the serial number, it is too hard for me to locate, I am visually impaired and I just cannot find it on the device. If I search long enough, I may be able to find something, but it will be too small to read, from my past experiences. It is really bad that now, each product requires a registration step consisting of transcribing a serial number, especially when the product has a web interface that can transmit that number automatically if need be.
From all this, I now know that what I need is pretty much a simple Linux box with SSH/SFTP access. I thought a NAS would help me for the configuration of the RAID, which Ubuntu does not expose well (had to deal with complex commands instead of a GUI), but it just adds too much stuff I don't understand and don't really need. But it's too late, I'm stuck with the unit. Yes, I can pull the drives out and put them in my HTPC, but I would have wasted hundreds of dollars if I do this.
Is it possible to replace this bulky firmware with a simple Linux system? Fortunately, I picked an Intel NAS, so maybe a Ubuntu would work there, but not sure, I'll have to investigate.
I just got a NAS and cannot do much with it. There are just too many things to setup just to get basic drive sharing, and then comes qnapCloud, which just fails, asking for a QNAP ID I don't know how to create. Searching for QNAP ID, I got clues about qnapCloud, tried to create an account, and am asked ONCE AGAIN to supply a serial number. I really cannot get the serial number, it is too hard for me to locate, I am visually impaired and I just cannot find it on the device. If I search long enough, I may be able to find something, but it will be too small to read, from my past experiences. It is really bad that now, each product requires a registration step consisting of transcribing a serial number, especially when the product has a web interface that can transmit that number automatically if need be.
From all this, I now know that what I need is pretty much a simple Linux box with SSH/SFTP access. I thought a NAS would help me for the configuration of the RAID, which Ubuntu does not expose well (had to deal with complex commands instead of a GUI), but it just adds too much stuff I don't understand and don't really need. But it's too late, I'm stuck with the unit. Yes, I can pull the drives out and put them in my HTPC, but I would have wasted hundreds of dollars if I do this.
Is it possible to replace this bulky firmware with a simple Linux system? Fortunately, I picked an Intel NAS, so maybe a Ubuntu would work there, but not sure, I'll have to investigate.