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Nighthawk R7500 Eide
I've been using the Nighthawk R7500 for a long time, and I'm (still) happy with it. Now I got another laptop (win11) and I want to access the eSata HD connected to this router from the new file explo...
It works !
This new laptop (win11) used SMB2 and apparently my netgear setup doesn't work with this. So I changed it to SMB1 (wich is not/less insecure in "home" networks) and everything works.
Sadly enough it's not mentioned in the manual.
Nevertheless : thanks for your time and effort to help me !
Page 63 in the manual goes over connection and then it moves (in later pages) in how to access it.
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R7500/R7500_UM_29Aug2014.pdf
Thanks for your superfast reply !
But it didn't work...
I'll be back later with details about what happens...
Could it be that it only works on win7 and not on this new win11 laptop ?
It works !
This new laptop (win11) used SMB2 and apparently my netgear setup doesn't work with this. So I changed it to SMB1 (wich is not/less insecure in "home" networks) and everything works.
Sadly enough it's not mentioned in the manual.
Nevertheless : thanks for your time and effort to help me !Glad you got it working!
If you're reliant on the external, might be time to check into a NAS. A router based one is nice for just starting out, but a good NAS with backup is awesome. I can't tell you the number of times my NAS based RAID array saved my data