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R7960P ReadyShare
I want to setup ReadyShare on my Nighthawk R7960P router. I have a USB stick plugged in but that doesn't seem to work. Does the device have to be a USB disk drive? If so can it be EITHER a mechani...
Have I managed to get a drive to show up? Well, yes and no. When I plug the USB stick into the router and give it a few minutes the router will show that a sharename has been created (ReadyShare tab), I think that means the router is aware of the USB device. But if I then try to create a network folder (USB Functions tab) I get a message that there's no drive installed/inserted (I think that indicates the router doesn't really know how to deal with that USB stick). Seems rather odd to me. The USB drive I'm using is good - I tested it in a computer and it works fine.
And yes, I have had other issues with McAfee and I'm already trying to work with them. Don't mean to run them down but their initial rep couldn't fix the issue and has escalated it. Always takes them a day or two for the escalation team to call back.
Did your research find this?
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Sorry for the slow reply - hurricane Ida came through southeastern PA yesterday and did a LOT of flooding - solving this problem wasn't at the top of my list....
No, I hadn't seen this paper/solution and I find it VERY disturbing. There's no reason for a company like NetGear to continue using outdated/unsafe protocols. But I do note that the solution is 4 years old and have to wonder if NetGear have done anything, since it was posted, to move to more secure protocol(s)? Any idea?
Still, it's very interesting to me that my Windows 10 Pro machine has no problem selecting the router as its network of preference while the Windows 10 Home machine gets reported in the McAfee Network diagram as being connected to the ReadyShare and McAfee also reports that machine is connected to two (2) networks (but doesn't identify them by any name) and that the connection McAfee thinks is shared with the Windows 10 Pro machine is not the preferred network on that Wiindows 10 Home machine. The only indication I get about the ReadyShare is that the McAfee Network, on the Windows 10 Home machine, shows that Windows 10 Home machine as being connected to ReadyShare. If I remove the USB storage device then the Windows 10 Home machine appears, in the McAfee Network on that machine, as being connected to my router.
Of course all this being said, that really doesn't explain why, when the USB storage is installed on router, I can't create the network shared folder and connect either machine to it. That would seem to be a purely NetGear issue.
Thanks for the pointer.