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RAX120 - Drive Shares Broken after drive change
Manufacture: NetGear Nighthawk AX12 AX6000
Model: RAX120
Firmware: V1.2.3.28
I had two usb drives with two shares:
A1 port : Drive label and share name "backup"
A2 port: Drive lable and share name "movies"
I simply purchased new drive for "backup" , moved data over via LAN copy. Unmounted drive clean and inserted new drive and want to share it out as same share name "backup".
But GUI keeps messing share up. And I can't get my two drives to share normally. And yes. .. I need security on drive (so DNLF is disabled on switch)
I just need to change share (it tags on some random drive letter for "ReadyShare" and I don't care... if it wants a secondary share with backup(U:) so long as it requires login. I can't / don't use Readyshare as it does not work on 90% of systems which need data from the drives (Linux clients, appliances such as cameras etc... ).
Question:
1) I updated firmware but no change. What changed in UI to break this basic drive sharing?
2) is their any plans / hope for CLI or other tool to configure this kind of simple SMB / FTP drive share?
3) When will Netgear join some kind of standard where we can set more than one "god user" account where permissions can be a bit more granular of inputing access to drive shares but NOT giving system wide account out.
One of the reasons I purchased this model and quality of router is to have basic drive sharing for backup and files.
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Netgear has set up a community forum specifically for the NightHawk RAX WiFi 6 Router products. Most of the people who watch that forum are more likely to have experience with NH router products and know how to work it better than those of us who follow this router forum. Might be more likely to find someone who has a solution if the question is posted there:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/bd-p/en-home-routers-nighthawk-wifi-ax6
Please use this link to the main forum product list to review and choose where to make your posts.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/NETGEAR-Forum/ct-p/en-netgear
Thank you.To better understand how it is handling the shares from a client perspective, using any folder, in the address bar enter in \\router IP
For example, if the router IP is 192.168.1.1, then to \\192.168.1.1
How does it list each share?
Forgot the mention, the above post assumes you are using windows to view the smb shares. It should look like what is attached.
If you change the share name and apply on both windows (the popup window and then the main window). Then the share name should change as well, though it can take a few seconds for client devices to see the cange, especially if they cache those share results.
