User Manual

To recover your administrator password using NETGEAR’s password recovery tool through
email:
1. Launch a web browser and visit < ReadyNAS_IP_address>/password_recovery.
<ReadyNAS_IP_address> is the IP address of the storage system.
2. 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 Set the Administrator Password on page 161.
3. Click the Recover button.
NETGEAR resets the administrator password and sends an email message with the new password to
the password recovery email address.
Recover the Administrator Password Using the Physical Reset
Button
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.
Both user name and password are case-sensitive.
To recover your administrator password using NETGEAR’s password recovery tool and
the physical Reset button:
1. Launch a web browser and visit https://< ReadyNAS_IP_address>/password_recovery.
The Password Recovery page displays.
<ReadyNAS_IP_address> is the IP address of the storage system.
2. Follow the directions on the page.
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