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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RAX120 - Drive Shares Broken after drive change