QNAP Firmware Issue

[MatthewL]

Just a heads up, I've not had chance to fully investigate but might save someone some time.

 

I have a QNAP TS-420 4 bay NAS at home, was running firmware 4.3.3.1799 till the other day when I updated to 4.3.3.1864.

 

All went ok as usual till last night when I tried to access a share, no luck via hostname or IP. I could web into it and my phone was copying files ok to it via the app. Several reboots and no joy. No obvious things have changed although I need to review the firmware release notes again I did wonder if it was an update on the PC again no joy, so booted up a VM I have that has had nothing done to it for ages no joy which pointed to the NAS. I even enabled the second NIC and that made no difference access it that way.

 

No luck with anything I reluctantly reverted the firmware, not something I've ever had to do and it did come with a warning that I could loose all but not the end of the world as its a backup copy of the PC at worse I would loose some images of machines I've made. Luckily the firmware brought it back to life, not sure what has changed but when I get time will be looking into, just wanted to heads up incase anyone else looks to do it over the weekend might save a few hours.