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I have a Nighthawk X6 R8000 and I love it. It has the latest FW, V1.0.4.28_10.1.54, which I noticed that a few people are having issues but I seem to be the lucky one, that or I got a Canadian versio...
Hi JAS
Xant0 wrote:
..., that or I got a Canadian version.
I can't think there is anything the like - what says the label on the back for the model number, something like R8000-100xxx ?
Xant0 wrote:
Now lately I have to recycle the router and/or external drives as they seem to go missing.
Many different cause are possible.
Xant0 wrote:
now is there a way to test these drives, the Seagate 5TB in particular while plugged into the router?
The Nighthawk routers don't offer any file system integrity checking.
With the HDD not detected and mounted (why ever) doing it would be even harder.
Eject/unplug and run a file system check e.g. on your Windows system.
Hi JAS
Xant0 wrote:
Ok now security. Am I able to setup folders through the router with l/p's just like a NAS or a Windows Pro? If so how? As I have tried everything and stil everyone has access to the 2 drives. It also says "Warning: We strongly recommend that you enable Admin Password Protection to secure your ReadySHARE data. If you did not change the default admin password, we also recommend that you change it to secure your network." which I've done and as soon as I do it the shares turn red X and if I double click the shared drive I expect for it to ask me for the l/p but it doesnt do that. I've created a bat file "net use" with all the info to run on startup or double click and still no go.
Something like a net use /delete would make the Windows system forget any mapped shared folders.
The Nighthawk routers only support using the admin account and your configured password - that's the only username/password we can apply on the external storage devices resp. the configured shared folders.
When mapping the shared folders - ideally by browsing from Windows Explorer using \\readyhsare\ or \\192.168.1.1\ and clicking on the shared folder(s) configured, the system should ask you for the (admin) username and password.
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And is there a way to change the "timeout" on the router lol?
The Web UI timeout? I don't think so...
You have me confused somewhat?
Screen Capture, is that a composit one? The top what the Router READYSHARE page partially have and the bottom from a MAC?
I assume you are on a MAC? I have no real experience with a MAC, using Windows 10. I have no problem with one or two USB drives connected to my R8000?
I have NEVER seen this message, "Warning: We strongly recommend that you enable Admin Password Protection to secure your ReadySHARE data."? Where are you seeing this?
Xant0 wrote:
I have 2 drives connected to the router. 1 LACIE 1TB external drive and 1 Seagate 5TB drive which I use both all the time. Now lately I have to recycle the router and/or external drives as they seem to go missing. now is there a way to test these drives, the Seagate 5TB in particular while plugged into the router?
Did you change anything on the router and had them start going missing?
There is no way to test a Network drive on Windows that I am aware of? When I suspect a drive problem I bring it to a PC and run CHKDSK on it.
I do have a drive sub-folder password protected. In order to use that I had to create a Windows Credential to access it. I only protected with a password a single folder that I would only access from my specific PC. Can't protect the whole drive. Too many programs will NOT see the drive as they have no capability to handle a login request. Specifically any and all DLNA Clients I use on Smart TV's, iPad's, and phones.
BTW, you are only the 2nd person that has posted here that said they had a 5TB drive working on the router. All others are 4TB or smaller. Nothing higher either.
Xant0 wrote:
I've created a bat file "net use" with all the info to run on startup or double click and still no go.
What is the BAT/CMD file contents? Does it include the router UID and PW? Might need to look like this, net use s: \\192.168.1.1\drive1 /user:myDomain\myUser myPassword?
OK sorry about the confusion as I am sick and was tired, still am. I am unsure what you mean by "Composit"? as the screen shot was 3 clipped with snipping tool in Windows 7 x64 Pro and then I couldn't attach 3 pix I put them all together in Photoshop. Attached is the full page Under Advanced > ReadySHARE Storage > USB Storage (Advanced Settings).
The message "Warning: We strongly recommend that you enable Admin Password Protection to secure your ReadySHARE data. If you did not change the default admin password, we also recommend that you change it to secure your network." has been there since the very first day I bought the router, Nighthawk X6 R8000, here in Canada. Maybe being here in Canada has something to do with different settings? As for being on a MAC, nope, good old Windows 7 Pro x64. You will see that warning in the screen snip I attached. Is there a way to attach for then one file to this discussion?
So if I Enable the, Network Neighborhood/MacShare \\readyshare, everyone in the house will be able to see it and have full access to it. It's interesting because until now, or when you said, I never noticed MacShare the name. Maybe thats the whole issue right there. No I haven't changed anything on the router other then FW updates regularly when they are ok. I did the command "C:\Windows\system32>net use s: \\Readyshare\5tb The command completed successfully." now I have a drive S: and a drize Z: showing up in my "Network Locations" and I can access both from prompt but router shows ONLY the one share.Yes I figured there wasn't a way to test it through the router I just figured I'd ask as in older NAS's theres an option to test but I know this is not a NAS :) I am stil stumped about the "MacShare" and I can't remember if I created the folder directly in the drive or I did it through the router dashboard. Apparently I am going to have to do a bit of reading or blow everythng away and start over.
I see your response "I do have a drive sub-folder password protected. In order to use that I had to create a Windows Credential to access it. I only protected with a password a single folder that I would only access from my specific PC." and was wondering how you do this? I create a subfolder in the drive "\\192.168.1.1\5tb\_Personal" and if I go to security it shows Users: Everyone, nobody (Unix User\Nobody) and Root (Unix Group\root) but there are no permissions on any of the 3, so I am assuming it's because it's in the MS settings and not UNIX. So in this case how do you lock it down to a single user? Thanx for the info regarding unable to protect
I do have a drive sub-folder password protected. In order to use that I had to create a Windows Credential to access it. I only protected with a password a single folder that I would only access from my specific PC. Can't protect the whole drive. Too many programs will NOT see the drive as they have no capability to handle a login request. Specifically any and all DLNA Clients I use on Smart TV's, iPad's, and phones.
BTW, you are only the 2nd person that has posted here that said they had a 5TB drive working on the router. All others are 4TB or smaller. Nothing higher either.
Xant0 wrote:
I've created a bat file "net use" with all the info to run on startup or double click and still no go.
What is the BAT/CMD file contents? Does it include the router UID and PW? Might need to look like this, net use s: \\192.168.1.1\drive1 /user:myDomain\myUser myPassword?
I missed this one, plus. First off I wanna make sure that everyone knows the 2 external drives are working perfect but it appears that maybe some of you all thought the drives weren't workings. I was told that the I was the second person to post here that they had a 5TB drive working on this Router Successfully. Since July 2016 it's been going steady. As for the "BAT/CMD file contents" I have NO clue what these are or where to get them. :) Thanx again all for the help.
What is the BAT/CMD file contents? Does it include the router UID and PW? Might need to look like this, net use s: \\192.168.1.1\drive1 /user:myDomain\myUser myPassword?
Xant0 wrote:
As for the "BAT/CMD file contents" I have NO clue what these are or where to get them. :) Thanx again all for the help.
Aren't you the same person who posted the first message in the thread? I.E., " I've created a bat file "net use" with all the info to run on startup or double click and still no go."? Win10 can use a .BAT file, but also a .CMD file. So what is in that file? Since you created it I'm surprised you can't find it? Maybe my use of BAT/CMD confused you? Many old DOS users might use BAT and CMD interchangeably.
Xant0 wrote:
First off I wanna make sure that everyone knows the 2 external drives are working perfect but it appears that maybe some of you all thought the drives weren't workings.
Again, you said "I have 2 drives connected to the router. 1 LACIE 1TB external drive and 1 Seagate 5TB drive which I use both all the time. Now lately I have to recycle the router and/or external drives as they seem to go missing. " in the first post.
You do not know if they are working all the time. Don't know the cause, drives or router? In addition you wanted to test the drive when connected? Sure sounds like they are not working 'perfectly'?
As a test I'd remove the 5TB and see if the other drive disappears over time. If it doesn't, I'd leave the 5TB alone and see what happens.
As for NG's USB filesystem, it isn't that robust. There are many reports over a variety of routers of drive disappearing when moving date to it, large files usually. Without more info and specifically when the drop of the drives happen it is really hard to tell what is going on. I personally have no problems with the drives on the same router and firmware.
Xant0 wrote:
OK sorry about the confusion as I am sick and was tired, still am. I am unsure what you mean by "Composit"? as the screen shot was 3 clipped with snipping tool in Windows 7 x64 Pro and then I couldn't attach 3 pix I put them all together in Photoshop. Attached is the full page Under Advanced > ReadySHARE Storage > USB Storage (Advanced Settings).
OK, composite is a collection of partial screens, and I was unsure of what (or where the capture was from) took place.
Xant0 wrote:
The message "Warning: We strongly recommend that you enable Admin Password Protection to secure your ReadySHARE data. If you did not change the default admin password, we also recommend that you change it to secure your network." has been there since the very first day I bought the router,.
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Is there a way to attach for then one file to this discussion?
OK, understand. This is the NORMAL warning everyone gets... I usually IGNORE it. Standard warning because IF you do NOT change the LOGIN credentials for you router then the DEFAULT VALUES of 'admin' and 'password' are used. That means if I were to start FTP'ing to your WAN IP Address (assuming I can locate it) it would be easy for me to access it using the default router login values. Change them, it would make it much harder to do so.
Xant0 wrote:
So if I Enable the, Network Neighborhood/MacShare \\readyshare, everyone in the house will be able to see it and have full access to it. It's interesting because until now, or when you said, I never noticed MacShare the name. Maybe thats the whole issue right there. No I haven't changed anything on the router other then FW updates regularly when they are ok. I did the command "C:\Windows\system32>net use s: \\Readyshare\5tb The command completed successfully." now I have a drive S: and a drize Z: showing up in my "Network Locations" and I can access both from prompt but router shows ONLY the one share.
OK, understand that part. See my Screenshot on right, it is just the sharing method, Network Neighborhood for PC's, MacShare for MAC's, you need this checked. I never gave that screen a second thought, I knew what to do and never fully read it.
Yes, you have a SINGLE drive with 2 shares. Note the folder names starts with T:. One is a PLEX drive, the other what is under the _Software folder. If you look at my capture on the right I have a single drive attached now with 2 shares, the root of the drive called T:\ which is PASSWORD PROTECTED with the ROUTER LOGIN CREDENTIALS and T:\share\video which is NOT PROTECTED with the ROUTER LOGIN CREDENTIALS. Only one that not protected can be seen by everyone.
When you do a NET VIEW of the share you can see the shares... and in my case it looks like this:
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C:\>net view \\readyshare
Shared resources at \\readysharereadyshare
Share name Type Used as Comment
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Movies Disk read:all-no password;write:all-no password
USB_2.0_Storage Disk read:admin;write:admin
The command completed successfully.========================
Since my PC has a Windows Credential with the required login information it can see the contents of USB_2.0_Storage:
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C:\>dir \\readyshare\USB_2.0_Storage
Volume in drive \\readyshare\USB_2.0_Storage is USB_2.0_Storage
Volume Serial Number is 6F06-9E72Directory of \\readyshare\USB_2.0_Storage
03/16/2018 02:25 PM <DIR> $RECYCLE.BIN
01/31/2019 09:01 AM <DIR> .
01/01/2015 01:00 AM <DIR> ..
12/25/2017 12:10 PM <DIR> Acronis Backup
11/10/2016 08:23 AM 5,453,003 ATI2016_userguide_en-US.pdf
08/16/2016 05:14 PM 50,449,456 dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe
05/12/2018 01:39 PM <DIR> netgear_downloader
09/13/2018 02:55 PM 48 New Text Document.txt
06/13/2018 07:59 PM <DIR> Pictures
05/26/2018 07:28 PM 19 qc
03/05/2012 06:44 PM 1,644,118 SeagateExpansion.ico
01/13/2016 10:00 PM 611,096 seatools-for-windows-en-us.pdf
05/12/2018 11:25 AM <DIR> share
05/12/2018 01:37 PM <DIR> System Volume Information
01/14/2016 11:47 AM <DIR> VProRecovery
6 File(s) 58,157,740 bytes
9 Dir(s) 1,208,284,282,880 bytes freeC:\>
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Didn't have the credentials, one of two things would happen, depending on HOW you tried to look at the protected area, you'd either be prompted for the username and password or the command (or app) would fail and not see anything. However the folder share and sub-folder movies anyone can see and use.
Your other drive, the LaCie is clearly NOT attached and missing unless you cut off the screenshot?
You can put more than one 'picture' in a response. Using the 'Photos' icon on the reply bar above but that isn't really the best way. Doing so includes the photos IN-LINE with the reply. Only problem, they do NOT appear with the reply immediately. Needs MODERATOR approval for it to be seen by ANYONE but you and the Moderators. Can take some time, especially on weekend. Best way to do it, take composite snapshots of more than one as one and post that using the browse.
