Netgear RN212 – 2 BAY Desktop ReadyNAS Storage Guida Al Software

You can use NETGEAR s password recovery tool to recover a lost or forgotten administrator password in
two ways:

Receive a new password through email. You must enable and configure this method ahead of time.
For more information, see 

 on page 146.

Use the physical reset button. By default, this method is enabled, but it requires physical access to
the ReadyNAS system. For more information, see 

 on page 146.

You can also perform an OS reinstall. This process reinstalls the firmware on the storage
system and resets the administrator user name and password to factory defaults.

This procedure is an option only if you enabled password recovery. For more information about setting up
password recovery, see 

 on page 146. If you lost the password but did not

enable administrator password recovery, see 

 on page 204.

Launch a web browser and visit < ReadyNAS_IP_address>/password_recovery.
<ReadyNAS_IP_address> is the IP address of the storage system.

Enter the email address, the number of the recovery question (1 for the first question, and so on), and
password recovery answer that you specified on the storage system.
See 

 on page 146.

Click the Recover button.
NETGEAR resets the administrator password and sends an email message with the new password to
the password recovery email address.

This process does not remove data from the system, but resets the administrator password to the factory
default. The default password to log in to the local admin page is password.