asittler  Freshman Member

For the interested: Thanks to https://homeforum.zyxel.com/discussion/649/root-account/p1 I know the password of root (which is identical to admin). I then ran /etc/init.d/samba.sh stop /etc/init.d/samba.sh start and samba is working again, which was my main goal. I'll investigate further and update this thread once I have…

@Clay_JF2019 Thanks for the response. Your suggestion is clearly the better way, but, apart from further investigation, requires root access, no?

Update: I now have both nc and telnet access to the device on port 23 with my admin account. The device apparently runs 'Linux 2.6.31.8 #2 Fri Jun 23 11:03:47 CST 2017 armv5tel GNU/Linux' Any idea how to proceed from here? I found this link http://zyxel.nas-central.org/wiki/Boot_process_(300_series) I also found a few logs…