All6500 2.1.0.3 <-> No way to SSH?

[olibaer]

I bought an Allnet ALL6500 and flahed the newest Firmware 2.1.03 from the
allnet website. After this, I found this website and I'm very unhappy because
of my upgrade... a login per SSH would be very nice to have.. i dind't knew about
the impossibility of downgrading, so i did not change the root passwort.

Allnet modified the Firmware in a way, that the System/Module Managment Option
is not available threwout menue. But if I modifey the internetlink to something
like

http://...?module

and the Module Managment Menue ist available. But I wasn't able to upload mods
- after pressing the uploading button simply nothing happens. I disabled the XP SP2
firewall, just in case but it didn't helped. I think this is the main problem. If i can install
mods my problem can be fixed, but this menue seems to be useless.

I also did try to upload original Thecus N2100 Firmware, but ist impossible because
the Allnet Nas must be modifed per SSH to use Thecus Firmware...

So...

- I can't downgrad from this Firmware
- I can't login per SSH
- I can't modify All6500 to N2100
- I can't upload Mods

Any suggestions? A way to downgrade Firmeware? Install Debian and reinstall
somehow (way to complex for me) ?!?! Sell it at ebay? ^^

[dbridges]

olibaer said:

I bought an Allnet ALL6500 and flahed the newest Firmware 2.1.03 from the
allnet website. After this, I found this website and I'm very unhappy because
of my upgrade... a login per SSH would be very nice to have.. i dind't knew about
the impossibility of downgrading, so i did not change the root passwort.

Allnet modified the Firmware in a way, that the System/Module Managment Option
is not available threwout menue. But if I modifey the internetlink to something
like

http://...?module

and the Module Managment Menue ist available. But I wasn't able to upload mods
- after pressing the uploading button simply nothing happens. I disabled the XP SP2
firewall, just in case but it didn't helped. I think this is the main problem. If i can install
mods my problem can be fixed, but this menue seems to be useless.

I also did try to upload original Thecus N2100 Firmware, but ist impossible because
the Allnet Nas must be modifed per SSH to use Thecus Firmware...

So...

- I can't downgrad from this Firmware
- I can't login per SSH
- I can't modify All6500 to N2100
- I can't upload Mods

Any suggestions? A way to downgrade Firmeware? Install Debian and reinstall
somehow (way to complex for me) ?!?! Sell it at ebay? ^^

The modules need to be unpacked before they can be loaded. You need to stuff around with them to get the .mod file out and that's what you load.

Is this what you did???

Stick with it. The conversion from allnet to straight thecus is really easy once you've got ssh access.

[dbridges]

Firstly, standard disclaimers apply here. If it breaks dont blame me. I've tested this from my end but you never know with other peoples machines.

BUT...

I've just put together a firmware patch which changes the allnet /app/manifest.txt to be the thecus one.

Basically it's a firmware patch which you run first and it will allow you to install the thecus firmware.

n2100convert.bin

Feel free to unpack it and have a look at the contents.

You install this in the firmware upgrade page and it will go through the motions of installing the firmware including checking versions and asking you to confirm.

When it gets to the stage where it asks you to reboot. DO NOT REBOOT Rebooting should restore the manifest.txt file back to the original (untested).

Instead go straight ahead and install the thecus firmware.

I've never actually heard of anyone who's owned an allnet so this is uncharted territory.

[olibaer]

Thanks for the quick answer.

I tried your hotfix and yes it worked! I did not reboot an installed the Thecus Firmeware.

Just if somebody is interested in the Allnet Files, here are the links:

Firmeware:

www.allnet.de/ftp/pub/allnet/nas/all6500/all6500_2.1.03.2_GPL.tar.tar

Binaries:

www.allnet.de/ftp/pub/allnet/nas/all6500/all6500_2.1.03.2_GPL.tar.tar


The module uploading still doesn't work. I downloaded various mods from
onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/Main_Page . I unziped the tar/zip files and in some
archives there .mod and in some .00 files. Did I miss something? Sry for the noob questions..

[olibaer]

Ok my fault... some guy here had the same problem... i added .gz and the mods can be unpacked..

Maybee the mods could have worked with allnet.

But having a original thecus is a plus for future updates. Your Firmewarepatch worked and should be linked in the wiki for guys like me who wan't to mod all6500-2-n2100.

[dbridges]

Thanks for the absolute confirmation on the allnet firmware patch. I'll put it up on the wiki.

I think that i'll also repackage ssh into a standard zip. It's been causing too much of a problem for people who aren't linux guru's. Unzip. Find the .mod file and load that.

Edit:
Done: onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/N2100_ALLNET_to_Thecus

and

Done: onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/N2100_Module:_SSH

[baddude]

olibaer said:

Ok my fault... some guy here had the same problem... i added .gz and the mods can be unpacked.. .

hi.

i do not really understand, how did you do ...
the module uploading still doesn't work for me. after pressing the install button, it goes to a blank page, and doesn't do anything.

by uploading i mean upload the *.mod file from the unpacked module.

what do you mean by adding .gz?

thanks for the help...

[dbridges]

Do you have an allnet or do you have a thecus?

Did you try the tgz or the zip? Have you tried the other???

What firmware are you running.

Do you have disks installed (stupid question i know but you never know)

[baddude]

dbridges said:

Do you have an allnet or do you have a thecus?

Did you try the tgz or the zip? Have you tried the other???

What firmware are you running.

Do you have disks installed (stupid question i know but you never know)

hi.

i got an allnet, put patched to thecus, firmware 2.1.03

Product Information
Manufacturer Thecus
Product No. N2100
Firmware Version 2.1.03
Up Time 17 hours 44 minutes

i tried the tgz, and unpacked with windows (specially winrar).

and i dont put disks yet, just played with the box

----- EDIT -----

in the meanwhile i tried with the zip file with the same result.
after i browse the mod file, and press install, it leads me to a totally empty page. this page: /adm/module.html
as I realized, every other pages' address is something like /adm/getform.html?name=module

[dbridges]

The modules install to the disks in the folder /raid/module

The disks need to be installed

N2100:~# cd /raid/module
N2100:/raid/module# ls -ltr
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 Dec 27 08:57 SSH/
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 15 21:09 THUMBGEN/
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Feb 15 21:09 cfg/
N2100:/raid/module#

After the disks are in it should install fine.

[baddude]

dbridges said:

The modules install to the disks in the folder /raid/module

The disks need to be installed

After the disks are in it should install fine.

Thank you for your patient :S

I will re-try, when I set up my raid.

\m/