[XR500] External USB 3.0 HDD formated in ext4 does not show up in ReadyShare storage

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Pixys wrote:

Piece of advice, stop giving hollow promises because you are not responsible for the incompetency of your employer but giving promises makes you responsible...

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In defense of Netduma-Fraser by yet another Netgear customer: Netduma is a supplier for some of the technology implemented on the Nightawk Pro Gaming routers, not the vendor or maker of the complete router. The hardware, the base platform OS, and many services like ReadyShare are coming from Netgear. Unfortunately, Netgear has a looong history of broken and incomplete ReadyShare (SMB) implementations on many of their consumer class products. Bottom up, many external storage devices are not recognized, due to various possible reasons (e.g. different partition schemes), USB power, basic USB device detection, ... on any router models. The community is full with these. Let's also take the example that none of these products does come with WS-Discovery - the de-facto industry standard on workgroups replacing the legacy NetBIOS host discovery and name resolution in newer Windows 10 editions - "just" implementing SMB3 alone doesn't make it workable. Comparing to all this, the absence of a working ext4 (geee, exotic for the majority of the Netgear customers) file system support, would be really a snap to fix - I can't agree more. However, the true standard file systems for the typical Netgear customers are NTFS, plus more and more exFAT - the standard file systems for external storage does come from the factory.

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Pixys wrote:

Honestly, you should close this topic, Netgear / Duma has a reputation of not delivering what is promissed and you are perfectly aware as you handle this forum. One example: the HybridVPN functionnality that has been been promissed for months and just partially implemented.

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Can't find any discussion thread with your participation describing of what HybridVPN functionality you expected or what was promised and not delivered finally - following a long wait. I have my ideas what i would expect from a true HybridVPN implementation, like the ability to keep up multiple VPN sessions (different regions, different providers), and associate either services or local hosts accordingly. This wasn't promised however, unless I have missed something.