DUAL HDD NAS: Enabling telnet or how to get the into the engine room
My first approach was to modify the firmware. If you google for “dual hdd nas firmware” you should find the proper file (CentriNAS_V2_3_3a.tar.gz). With the help of Linux (using “Parallels”) I was able to change the firmware. My third try was to big and the device was more or less death after the flash process (see the other article).Shortly after the NAS was working again I found that the telnet port was open a short period after the device has booted (no, I don’t mean the bootloader). To get connected simply shutdown the device, enter
ping -o 192.168.0.13; telnet 192.168.0.13
and start the device. One or two minutes later you can log in as “root”. The password is blank.
Edit the “/etc/inetd.conf” file and remove the comments so you can log out and in as long as the device is not rebooted.
The telnet daemon is originally started but then stopped by the configuration program. But you can’t use the web interface to change this.
But well, that’s not true…