If your GoFlex Home web interface stops responding a short time after you reboot then it is very likely that your device has been hacked. I have written about this in other posts, but a search for this specific problem might not get you a direct answer, so I added this post.
GoFlex Home iptables firewall security
For remote access you have to open up ports to the GoFlex Home but that attracts brute force attacks. You will see all those attempts if you check your router logs. If you have a good router then you can reject requests unless they come from a whitelisted ip address, but with Netgear routers it is all or nothing, so what can you do to beat the hackers?
Understanding GoFlex Home Spindown
Why won't my disk ever stop spinning? Why is my GoFlex Home slow to respond and how can I increase the delay before it goes to sleep? What do the pwrmgr conf settings mean? Why does the disk even need to spin down at all? This post tries to answer those questions.
Install a Package Manager (with example Midnight Commander)
If you want to add software to your GoFlex Home then the easiest way to do that is with a package manager, which is a software installer that takes care of the housekeeping tasks of adding new programs. I will show you how to install the Optware ipkg utility which then makes it easy to add programs from the repository. Optware allows you to add programs without upsetting your original firmware as it installs to its own location.
Inspect or change a rootfs UBI Image file
If you want to take a look inside a UBI image file before flashing it or maybe change a single file inside the image then how do go about that? I'll show you how to do it for GoFlex Home ubi images.
GoFlex Home Firmware reflash without Seagateshare
The best thing about the GoFlex Home was that that if you forgot your password or acquired a unit with unknown user credentials or just messed things up too badly using ssh, then you could always reflash the firmware and start over with a GoFlex Home just like one straight from the factory. But reflashing wipes out all user accounts and you need to set up the first user over the internet. So now that Seagateshare server has shut down what if you need to reflash your firmware?
How to make your own GoFlex Home firmware backup
Once you have
set up your GoFlex Home just how you want it and especially if you have
installed extra packages like inadyn or NFS then it can be a nuisance if you have to re-flash the firmware and start again.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could make a “system backup” so you could restore
your GoFlex Home system from USB? Well
you can and I’ll show you how to do it. You will need a Linux PC but it’s easy
to install Linux on an old laptop.
"Installing" DuckDNS on the GoFlex Home
To access your GoFlex Home over the internet I recommend DuckDNS. It is very easy to set up your own subdomain and it is free, though you can donate if you want to help to keep this great service operating. Updating your IP address is very simple through their website and they even provide very helpful instructions for setting up a Linux Cron job to automatically update your IP address. Unfortunately their instructions are aimed at a full-blown linux OS and need a bit of tweaking for the GoFlex Home.