NETGEAR RNDU4000-100NAS Software Manual page 86

Recover Your Administrator Password Using NETGEAR's Password Recovery Tool
This procedure is an option only if you enabled password recovery by providing a password
recovery question, answer, and email address as described in
Password Recovery
password recovery, see
on page 86
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To recover your administrator password using NETGEAR's password recovery tool:
1. Using a web browser, visit https://<ReadyNAS_IP_address>/password_recovery.
<ReadyNAS_IP_address> is the IP address of your ReadyNAS system.
The ReadyNAS password recovery screen displays.
2. Enter the email address and password recovery answer you enabled on your ReadyNAS
storage system and click the Reset password and email button.
NETGEAR resets your administrator password and sends an email message with the
new password to you.
Recover Your Administrator Password Using an OS Reinstall Reboot
This process does not remove data from the system, but resets the administrator user name
and password to the factory defaults:
• Factory default user name. admin
• Factor default password. netgear1
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To recover your administrator password using an OS reinstall reboot:
Perform an OS reinstall reboot on your storage system.
The process for performing an OS reinstall reset reboot varies by storage system. For
more information about how to perform a factory reset reboot, see the ReadyNAS Ultra,
Ultra Plus, NVX, and Pro Series Hardware Manual.
ReadyNAS for Home RAIDiator 4.2
on page 85. If you lost your password but did not enable administrator
Recover Your Administrator Password Using an OS Reinstall Reboot
System Settings
Enable Administrator
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