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Readyshare doesn't work
I've purchased the Nighthawk RAX50 for use with a USB Drive. While I see the USB drive in Network, it is appeaing as a media device as you can see in the screen shot below. It will not let me browse ...
For the ReadySHARE USB discovery and name resolution, Netgear does still make use of the NetBIOS name resolution. This a part of the ‘SMB1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support’ feature which is disabled on newer Windows builds by default.
To enable SMB1 on Windows 1803 (or newer) workstations:
- Search in the start menu for ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ and open it
- Search for ‘SMB1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support’ in the list of optional features that appears, and select the checkbox next to it.
- Click OK and Windows will add the selected feature. You’ll be asked to restart your computer as part of this process
You don't have to worry about the SMB1 transport protocol, the Windows client will negotiate a higher SMB transport version automatically.
Same in Windows 10 and 11.