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R7000 (AC1900) Readyshare and Windows 10
Hello, I purchased the Netgear AC1900 router in 2016 because I needed 802.11ac WiFi for a new laptop (windows 8). I hooked a USB hard drive (2TB) to the router for storing common files (mostly m...
I'm just throwing this out there because I'm genuinely unsure, but will the following link shed any light on your issue?.....
https://kb.netgear.com/18985/Will-my-USB-drive-work-with-ReadySHARE
Within the article, it does list drives that have been assessed to work with the R7000.
If I'm off the mark completely, then please accept my apologies.
Thanks, but that is not the issue. The USB drive works with the router, Windows 7 and Window 8 can read and write with no issues. IT is the new laptop which has Windows 10 that can not access the USB drive.
Ok, got you.
The only issues I've personally had with USB/external SSD's etc not working initially on my own Windows 10 laptop, is because they weren't formatted correctly. I recently had an issue trying to get my Wife's iPad on os13, to see an external SSD I'd bought for her. I'd formatted on my W10 laptop as NTFS which wouldn't work with her iPad. Changed the format to xFAT or FAT32 and it promptly worked.
I hope someone comes up with a workable solution for you.
Portwey84 wrote:I recently had an issue trying to get my Wife's iPad on os13, to see an external SSD I'd bought for her. I'd formatted on my W10 laptop as NTFS which wouldn't work with her iPad. Changed the format to xFAT or FAT32 and it promptly worked.
Any Netgear ReadyShare router/ReadyNAS supported file system is workable over the network. The access is done using SMB protocol, which makes it fully independent. Different from direct connected devices, where eg. a Windows system can't work with Apple HFS+ (AppleFS isn't supported yet by Netgear) resp. an MacOS/iPadOS which can't work with NTFS as a direct access storage, this does not matter.
Ok, this does not include possible bugs of the foreign file systems implementations like NTFS, HFS+, [exFAT ... not officially supported AFAIK], FAT32 (the routers are all Linux), or file system errors which can be fixed using a file system check (what requires a system with a native support for the file system on the external device.
Hello Michael,
Well this seems like it will work (I am not at home), but it is from 2017 and Netgear has not fixed the issue as of the last software update (Firmware Version 1.0.9.88 Aug 2019). Given that this is over 2 years old, it look like they never will.
As someone who will not get into the depth of networking, it looks like I need to find a router that does not use SMBv1.
Thanks for the link.
Mike
mikejvir wrote:As someone who will not get into the depth of networking, it looks like I need to find a router that does not use SMBv1.
The SMBv1 warning was almost obsolete when that referenced post was published. The ransomware issues allowing the non-authenticated access regardless of the config was fixed. There was (and is) even more false hype in the net than on SARS-CoV-2.
Then, a client capable of using higher SMB protocol levels does automatically negotiate to thre highest version available on the client and the server. This is not the reason for disabling SMB 1.0 on the routers supporting higher protocol versions.
Reality check: How many ReadyShare routers and NAS using SAMBA and have configured shared folders with anonymous/guest access not requiring usename and password protection? Using the latest and greatest SMBv3.x won't protect you here....
Conclude: Very bad idea to warm up known faux information here.
There is no need to throw away a router with an updated SAMBA installation against these ransomware vulbnerabilities!!!
