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Savier
Sep 10, 2021Tutor
readyShare does not allow me to connect to my HDD
I'm not sure that I put the rounter name correctly, but if not, my router name is NighthawkAX8AX6000 WiFI Cable Modem Router, Model CAX80. So before readyShare allowed me to connect to my HDD with t...
Jordan-P
Sep 21, 2021Star
For what it's worth... I have a CAX80 and have been using Readyshare for over a year with an external USB drive attached with password protected shares using the router login admin and password and everything has been fine. In the last 1 to 2 weeks I can no longer access my password protected Readyshare shares. If I turn off the password protection I get to them fine. But something has changed in the last week or two that is causing the password protected shares not to accept the router login and password.
I've tried a lot of things to rectify the problem. So many that I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it. Fix will have to come the way of a firmware update. I'm assuming there is a security certificate or something somewhere that maybe has expire. Maybe not? But nothing has changed on my end. Something broke possibly with a recent firmware update.
I've tried a lot of things to rectify the problem. So many that I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it. Fix will have to come the way of a firmware update. I'm assuming there is a security certificate or something somewhere that maybe has expire. Maybe not? But nothing has changed on my end. Something broke possibly with a recent firmware update.