Netgear Stora Ms2110

[Skyy Mansour]

TheNetgear Stora is a simple NAS system that allows anyone, even with no tech knowledge, to set up a simple network attached home RAID system. I plugged it in, slapped in a second hard drive, pushed the power button, and copied over my files. It was completely up and running within a few minutes. The Netgear Stora provided me an easy hot-swappable RAID system, but I wanted much more. I knew it was a fully functional, stand-alone, low-power linux server. The obvious next step was to root it.

Gaining root access on the Netgear Stora is amazingly easy. The first thing you need to do is get your product key. There is one located on the bottom of the device and one on the cd that came with it. Mine (for whatever reason) didn't match. For me the one on the Netgear Stora install CD was the correct one to use. This may not always be the case so try both.

Now that you have your Stora product id all you need to do is login via SSH using any user you have setup on your stora that has administrator access (in the web interface). However, if you just use the user name as is you won't be allowed access. Instead you have to add "_hipserv2_netgear_XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" after the user name (replace the X's with your actual product key). For my example I will use my name Lenny as the user name and all X's for the product key. Any user with the administrator access flagged in the Netgear Stora web panel will have the ability to use the sudo command to gain root access.

From what I can tell this is just a lame attempt by the developers to keep the general public form being able to shell into the device while still allowing themselves to get in for debugging / testing. It looks like the distribution of linux packaged with the Netgear Stora is shipped with a custom SSH server that appends a string including the product keys to the authorized user list.

Maybe you can assist me. I just got a Stora and had it set up. I could not add any users except the admin. In the OpenStora forum it stated the issue may be Access Patrol Service. So I tried the final step as instructed.

Well i messed up and missed a whole section. Now I get a constant blinking blue power light, any recommendations on how to correct this. I cant get into the SSH or even an ip address. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone know how to use the Stora for just a plain and simple network drive without all the stora crap?

I cant log into my stora as I cant remember my username and password and when I try to register it during the setup with the name I thought I gave it its incorrect.

Note that using this guide will replace the original firmware found on the Stora. If you ever plan to restore the original firmware please take a backup. The Ethernet address of your device is set by the original U-Boot. OpenWrt will use a different flash layout than the original one.

Before compiling the project, be sure to replace the MAC address with the real one for your device. You can find it on a sticker on the back wall, next to the power button.You need to replace in the file package/boot/uboot-kirkwood/patches/170-netgear-stora.patch on line 597.If you do not do this and you have two or more Netgear Stora devices on the network with this OpenWRT firmware, then these devices will have network connection problems due to duplication of MAC addresses.

Yes, all correctly. I boot in openwrt, but can't send bin file, network intrface don't up. But with your openwrt-kirkwood-netgear_stora-initramfs-uImage I have trouble - Image too large. I try with seagate image.

What you can do, is to transfer files via the serial port.

Using -kerr/AWK-base64decode

It's not ideal for larger files, but you could for instance

transfer the lrzsz then use that for transferring bigger

files.

I'm a novice so thank you for your hard work here.(@Nevskiy ) I've installed Nevskiy's images on my Stora MS-2110 over the weekend and it seems to be working. This is fantastic because the Netgear interface is now dead courtesy Flash EOL.

Just to understand better, I can not install packages from the software once I upgrade to the full image (21.02) but i can when I use the initial sysupgrade. I am unable to download the current package list with 21.02, because i get some sort of error related to incorrect certificate? I dont know where to start trouble shooting this,but I assume it's somewhere in the package download script?

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