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R7800: SMB Works, FTP Doesn't
If I use a flash drive formatted NTFS both SMB and FTP work fine and do everything they should. If I use an SSD formatted NTFS SMB works fine and does everything it should but trying to connect w...
An update on this in case it helps someone else as I was still getting problems.
The culprit was the SSD enclosure. I tried 2 other flash drives and four other HDD/SSD's and they all worked fine with FTP so I swopped the original SSD in to one of the other enclosures and it worked immediately and has continued to do so since (I even swopped things back to double check if the problem would reoccur and it did).
Why it wouldn't work with FTP but would with SMB is beyond me as is why FTP would work with the R7000 but not the R7800.
Afraid, lack of some insight since Netgear decided to kill the shell access for my routers. The last thing I still see is that the router here has "reversed" the T_Drive and the U_Drive somehow logically in the past - but for similar usage, this works here.
An update on this in case it helps someone else as I was still getting problems.
The culprit was the SSD enclosure. I tried 2 other flash drives and four other HDD/SSD's and they all worked fine with FTP so I swopped the original SSD in to one of the other enclosures and it worked immediately and has continued to do so since (I even swopped things back to double check if the problem would reoccur and it did).
Why it wouldn't work with FTP but would with SMB is beyond me as is why FTP would work with the R7000 but not the R7800.
KTO2 wrote:
Why it wouldn't work with FTP but would with SMB is beyond me as is why FTP would work with the R7000 but not the R7800.
This could be related to how some of the Netgear routers detect and identify the external storage devices. We know that for example some enclosure models use the same identity, what is causing similar troubles and only one of these is accessible at a time.Known cumbersome are the R7800 andR9000/R8900 for example.