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Admin Password Doesn't Work for USB readyshare drive
Admin login/password is denied when accessing a hard drive connected to the modem via USB that was read/write protected in routerlogin.net. If the drive is not protected, no problem accessing via...
DexterJB whatever we try - the admin and (password) authenticate does ot work for any NTGR router with ReadyShare here - no similar problems with several NAS (multiple brands and generations of Q, S, N, ...). Netger engineers have tried many different things, and have seen it does not work at all....zero feedback since. Strange for a major brand of counsumer hardware...
Still awful NTGR does have us to share the admin (!!!!) credentials just for storage access - but that's another story.
I strugled a lot when trying to connect to the USB "SMB" share "posted" by my Nighthawk X6S Tri-Band Mesh Extender.
What I ran, in a command prompt, was:
runas /noprofile /netonly /user:<my_device_login_name> cmd
Enter the password for <my_device_login_name>:<my_device_login_password>
In the new command prompt (cmd) window I attempted to connect using the defaults:
net use u: \\readyshare\usb_storage
I was asked for the password and typed my defined password for my <my_device_login_name> and got the following results:
C:\Windows\system32>net view \\192.168.0.6\usb_storage
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
C:\Windows\system32>net view \\READYSHARE
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
C:\Windows\system32>ping readyshare
Pinging readyshare [192.168.0.6] with 32 bytes of data
Reply from 192.168.0.6: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.6: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.6: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.6: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.6:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 24ms
C:\Windows\system32>net view \\READYSHARE\u$
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
C:\Windows\system32>
No success attempting a SMB protocol connection hoewever what worked for me was to enable FTP access, there were no issues with that, except a slow transfer rate.
Greetings.