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R6100 - ReadyShare - Upload to HDD from remote location?
Hello all, I've hooked up an external hard drive, through USB, to my router. I was hoping to use this drive for backups, but also want to be able to backup when I do not have access to the router...
Hi Trevonious,
If you are accessing it via a browser, it will be read only access. You may want to look into FTP clients and/or using Windows Explorer if applicable.
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
Hi Trevonious,
I would like to follow up and check if you are still experiencing the issue.
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
I haven't been able to solve my issue about uploading to the drive from a remote location (ie while connected to the network through a remote connection, such as VPN), but I fixed another issue about not being able to use the network drive for Mac TimeMachine backups. I used the following link to fix the issue:
https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/how-to-get-netgear-readyshare-to-work-with-time-machine-and-mountain-lion/
Basically, I had to format the partition that I wanted to use for the Mac TimeMachine backups as ExFAT or MS-DOS (FAT) and then follow the instructions from the link starting at the "Creating the Time Machine Image" section. The only thing I did differently is I connected to the network folder using the following address:
cifs://readyshare/<NameOfNetworkFolder>
Not sure if it is necessary, but I also ran the following command, on the machine that I wanted to back up, which just allows TimeMachine to see unsupported Network Volumes:defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
It's very possible, that running the above command is not necessary.
Although it is VERY slow, I am currently running the remote backup, successfully!