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I have been having crazy problems with Readyshare
I have been having crazy problems with Readyshare, I have changed the WINS and added the unsafe SMB1 leaving my system looking unsafe.
I have found that when I open the credential manager from Cont...
If you open the Credentials manager you can show the windows credentials then make the password change required, you'll see READYSHARE as a generic credential, change the password within that and voila you'll be able to use your Readyshare drives, works for both the USB cable attachments correctly.
So that is the solution to the problem caused by not being able to access your drives.It's nothing to do with adding old broken network solutions like SMB 1.0 or WINS, as long as your network is set correctly it should operate succesfully.
For some reason Windows reset that credential, for a reason I cannot understand (you'd have to talk to the programmer of that routine, good luck with that lol).
So I appear to have found a complete solution to that problem... hoorah for me!
Newer routers don't support it?
I don't give a damn about newer routers, a NAS is a NAS and my router was designed to support it, I bought it for that solution to network drives!
Netgear have given me a LOT of problems, you try assigning a fixed IP address on an R8000P router without having to load an old defunct outdated version, it won't happen!
That's poor and seriously bad programming from Netgear, plain and simple, nothing more nothing less!
You pay for a router you expect the programmers to make it function as advertised!
You are free to rant all you like. But that will not get you anywhere near sorting out your problems.
I have given you a few things to try, although I found it hard to follow you description of your problem.
You still haven't explained what you are trying to do. I was just left guessing. A good start would be to answer my list of questions.
Funnily enough, my newest MR90 router is one of those that does not support ReadySHARE. No USB socket.
So I now use an older R7800 in AP mode, mostly for that purpose. It works just fine with my installation of Windows 11, which is itself a movable feast that Netgear couldn't have anticipated when it wrote the firmware for your router.
So my guess is that you just need a tweak or two to get it to work. There is no need to shout at Netgear for failing to update your 2017 R8000P, if that is what we are talking about.
Netgear have given me a LOT of problems, you try assigning a fixed IP address on an R8000P router without having to load an old defunct outdated version, it won't happen!
Again, not knowing what you are doing we can't diagnose the problem. All I can say is that my R7800 was happy to reserve IP addresses until I relegated it to AP status.
I spoke at length to a Netgear technician while the product was still under warranty, the product may be "OLD" lmfao but the functionality defect was reported to them long ago, the tech was the one that downgraded my firmware to an older version, I just made sure it was the one after they fixed the gaping security hole they fixed. It was working OK and assigning as it should and still does.
"Shouting" at the manufacturer for not fixing a known problem in the operating system software that is now an old unfixed problem seems pretty fair to me (it was reported and seen by them long ago, while the product was under warranty).