I've recently purchased a 4TB ReadyNAS NVX and I'm currently trying to setup a pretty new feature called ReadyNAS Remote, documented here. As far as I can tell, this functionality will allow me to replicate a traditinal VPN setup and I'm really excited to use it. Since I'm having a little trouble getting this setup and there's a lack of documentation on the internet about it, I'm going to highlight the problem solution path I went through to get this setup. Starting with step 1:

1) My ReadyNAS Remote Client Won't Connect

I was getting an error. This ReadyNAS cannot connect to ReadyNAS Remote.

Problem Solved!

OK - I was on the phone with netgear about 4-5 times. I got a support ticket going and got my issue raised to Level 2. Essentially - I think something was wrong with their services because all at once, the ReadyNAS started recognizing the service and my laptop logged into the client. The ReadyNAS remote experience is A+. When it's all setup, you can securly using your network attached storage off your LAN. \\ReadNAS\folder\file.txt on your LAN will still be \\ReadNAS\folder\file.txt .. This was a big deal for me because I've got Dreamweaver setup to access web documents on the NAS. If I had to edit the Site Manager everytime I took logged onto a new network, it would be real pain.

GREAT JOB NETGEAR!

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I recently upgraded my Coldfusion 8 development server to 8,0,1,195765 and a pretty basic FTP task I had sceduled started erroring. It was giving me the following error :

• The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code. Null Pointers are another name for undefined values.

Ultimately, what fixed the error was changing 'cfftp name="xxx"...' to 'cfftp connection="xxx"...'. [I found this solution here]

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Recently, I've taken steps to create a web development environment for building newer versions of some of my websites. I plan on covering some of the finer details later on but some of the upgrades include things like:

• Netgear ProSwitches for lightning fast gigabit connectivity
• ReadyNAS NVX for 2.6TB of RAID-X centralized storage. I enjoy every aspect of this device.
• Webserver/PC running Windows Server 2003 - Enterprise Edition for serving up multiple websites.

Granted, this setup isn't super unique but if you take the time to do something like this, 2 questions may follow:

When I type EXAMPLE.COM into my browser, how do I make it load from my web server and not from the internet?

The simple answer is to look into editing your HOSTS file. FYI - you will need to edit the HOSTS file on your workstation computer and your server. I recommend using your own top-level domain for your development box. For example, having EXAMPLE.COM go to the internet and EXAMPLE.DEV going to your development server.

How can I test SSL's on pages I view on my development server?

If you try doing this yourself, you might not figure it out so easily but this is a pretty straight forward process. All you'll need for that is to read this article : How to create a self-signed SSL Certificate .

Happy Developing!!!

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