![]() Sure, I might get less power usage with the NAS, but it's not a system type I'm familiar enough with and I don't think I'm using any features that I couldn't use on a PC. at least I knew what I was doing with it! Maybe I was looking at it all the wrong way - I should have stuck with the old PC (i5 3570K) rather than buying a NAS and thinking I could do much of the same stuff! I can't remember the logic for getting the NAS any more - I suspect I just thought it was smaller and more power efficient, where the old PC wasn't really optimised for that sort of thing and was probably overkill for what I was using it for, but. Which is kind of what I have been doing with my old PC. Am I removing Avast and keeping it removed, or can I reinstall? (I get the impression that Windows Security is probably enough these days / complete anti virus packages are bloatware, but again, just doing what I've always done rather than challenging myself!)Īny suggestions of anything that would allow GUI visualisation at not too expensive a cost? (to be fair, I'm not looking to do too much with this VM, and I'm sure I could do it with the NAS without the VM, but I know how to do it all in Windows and what programs to use - not really a clue about QNAP alternatives or how to configure. Side note, this machine is not really meant for GUI virtualization, it is a very low end Celeron, so using it as a hypervisor will result in very poor performance (no amount of RAM will change that) Try removal of avast and lease a new IP for that machine from DHCP and try again (and now I'm probably going to get hammered for having my NAS connected to the internet, but hey, as I said, haven't a clue! Looking online, it suggests I enable SMB 1.0 on my PCs, but I'm sure I've seen someone somewhere saying don't - it's a massive security risk, so I haven't, but.)Īnyone able to give me some pointers? and don't shout at me.Please?! Thanks!Īvast is ine of these programs that "pentests" LAN devices for weak credentials (and gets the machine in question, locked out by QNAPs IP blocker) I'm suspecting via the Internet rather than on my own network. All the lights are flashing, as I said, the LAN port is showing traffic in QManager, but just not appearing on the network. Bit late for that now! Also don't know much about networking! I've got a couple of switches to extend the network, and it's all wired. Also questioning how I've set up my NAS on the network in the first place in some respects, but. no idea what I'm doing around firewalls, and Avast doesn't seem to make it obvious. It could be a firewall change as part of the Avast update, or it could be something else. So I think I've got a connectivity problem, not a memory problem, but for sake of completeness, thought I'd at least mention the new RAM. Just to check, I removed the new RAM, reverted back to the stock 4Gb stick, and tried again - same problem. Just occasionally the NAS would pop up in Qfinder (and occasionally Windows Explorer), but would never connect, and when I hit refresh it would vanish. However I could continue to connect using QManager on my phone, and it was showing everything working - showing the 32Gb RAM, all the disks, shares, etc. The NAS booted up, had all of the required beeps, however couldn't see it in Windows Explorer / connect to it through QManager. It didn't really click with my that I was having problems at this point, and I might be mis-remembering too, but. However I could always connect using Qmanager on my phone. It wasn't appearing on the network, and connecting through my PC using QFinder seemed to be temperamental. I then started having some connectivity problems with the NAS. Before I installed the RAM, I'd had a couple of system / (Avast) anti virus updates to my PCs - they must have been relatively major as both needed reboots. I understand that, if I get the right spec RAM, I can go up to 32Gb, so checked on some forums for specific models that worked and bought 2 sticks of Kingston KVR26S19D8/16. It seemed to work ok, though the instance ran painfully slowly, so I thought whilst it was worth persisting with, I needed a lighter weight version of Windows and a RAM upgrade. I decided I wanted to finally try setting up something new on it over the last few days - set up a virtual windows 10 instance to finally replace my old PC. I set it up, can't quite remember how, It just worked, so for the last year or so I've had no need to worry about it I followed one of the online setup guides and set up as a JBOD with 4 x 10Tb drives and installed Plex server but not really been using it beyond as a file server and Plex media server. ![]() ![]() I bought my 453D last year with the intention of maybe replacing my old PC. ![]() I'm relatively new to dedicated NASs - I'd previously just been using my old PCs via remote desktop as file servers, media server (plex), print server, download PCs, etc.
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