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N2100 ALLNET to Thecus
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Turn your Allnet NAS into a Thecus NAS
Allnet
Allnet is a German company which sells OEM versions of the Thecus N2100 as the Allnet ALL6500. The only difference, apart from the company name on the front, is the amount of memory: The ALL6500 has 256MB whereas the N2100 only has 128MB.
They also sell the N4100 (ALL6400) and the N5200 (ALL6600). Changing these models into a Thecus probably works the same way as changing the N2100. But this hasn't been tested yet.
Upgrading
The firmware on the ALL6500 is still at version 2.1.04. Upgrading the ALL6500 with a newer Thecus firmware doesn't work because the Thecus upgrade procedure has some builtin checks to see if it's a "real" Thecus. This problem can easily be resolved by one of two methods
Method 1
Recently Allnet firmware version numbering has been increased to be higher that the thecus numbering. It is now necessary to alter both the manifest.txt and the internal version number to make it lower than the thecus version. This converter will change your devices' manifest.txt to the thecus one and also change the version number to 2.1.02. It will still be running the original firmware in every way. Just the number is changed. This allows you to load any thecus firmware from 2.1.03 or higher. To restore the original version number reinstall your original firmware.
Download the 2.1.09 firmware conversion patch and install it as you would any other firmware. Your allnet system will need to have a firmware version below or equal to 2.1.09 before commencing.
You install this in the firmware upgrade page and it will go through the motions of installing the firmware including checking versions and asking you to confirm.
When it gets to the stage where it asks you to reboot. DO NOT REBOOT
Instead go straight ahead and install the real thecus firmware
Method 2
This involves a minor change on the ALL6500.
- Logon to your N2100 with SSH.
- Remove or backup the file /app/manifest.txt
- Create a new /app/manifest.txt
- Add these lines "type<TAB>n2100" and on the next line "producer<TAB>THECUS". Press the TAB key where it says <TAB>.
Or simply paste these two lines into your SSH session:
mv /app/manifest.txt /app/manifest.bak echo -e "type\tn2100\nproducer\tTHECUS" > /app/manifest.txt
You can now upload a newer N2100 Thecus firmware to your ALL6500 to turn it into a N2100.
The second method may only be possible if your Allnet has a relatively old Firmware to begin with. With 2.0.04, installation of modules is not possible and the ssh backdoor doesn't work so you will have had to find some other inventive way to ssh into the machine.