I have an RAX 120 drive issue. I have an enclosure that has two separate drives. Readyshare sees both drives on is assigned the let U: and the other is assigned T:. I assign them a share name of NAS1 and NAS2. However when I do a "net view \\readyshare" from the command line I get two shares list a list of shares that are NAS1 and NAS1(T). If I add another share to a folder on the second drive that I called Test, it doesn't show up. If I create a share called george1 and map it to a folder on the first drive I get the following when I do a net view \\readyshare from the command line:

X:\>net view \\readyshare

Shared resources at \\readyshare

NETGEAR RAX120

Share name Type Used as Comment

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
George1                 Disk
George1(T)            Disk                                             X:
NAS1                     Disk                                             Y:
NAS1(T)                Disk                                             Z:
The command completed successfully.

If I try to assign a drive letter to George1, I get network path no found. If I go to Y: and make a folder called George1 now I can map a drive to George1 as the share is now available.

To me it seems like the firmware thinks the enclosure is a RAID Array when in fact it isn't. The router configuration utility is seeing them as two seperate drives however they are not. Also when you reboot the router the shares are not pointing to the same drive as most of the time when a reboot of the router happens the drive that was assign the share of NAS1 and NAS(T) are switch.

The router should not be creating NAS(T) and should be honoring my assigned share name of NAS2 to the drive. Also if I create a share on the second drive it should be only assigned to the second drive. This is a bug in the SMB server.

George

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