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Readyshare not working Windows 10.
I'm tired of waiting on the SMB1 fix. Am I missing something or wouldn't it be easier if Netgear simply added support for an additional user (other than guest and admin)?
My understanding is the DLNA is only readonly access of media files. I have both readonly and readwrite shares needing access to all files (not just media files).
My real interest here is whether my proposal is reasonable?
1) If the guest account was replaced with a "user" account that has a password, then users could access shares by entering the credentials (and SMB1 would no longer be the issue; just as SMB1 does not seem to be an issue with admin/pw).
2) In your opinion, would you agree this would be easier to address than whatever issues remain with trying to address SMB1?
If so, what's the best way to get Netgear's attention? e.g. is there someone in the community that has some leverage with them?
Let us make this easy.
First, what you want to do can't be done now... that is 3 different levels of access... ADMIN with ALL, USER with some (w/pw) and Guest with less access and no pw.
Present design allows 2 choices, p/w protect or not.
You are looking for a function that most FTP sites would have, a user name and password restricting access to specific folder.
There IS a SUGGESTION area in this site, https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home, but I would hold my breathe on any progress or even an answer. Seems to almost be 'black hole' (https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/A-great-idea-Act-Upon-Ideas/idi-p/1774561#M2457 ).
Only NG people here have an 'N' icon on the name, all others are plain old end-users like you.
Bottom line, 2 types of USB accounts, one with a p/w and the other with none. The one with the p/w you can set to be the entire drive and read/write access to it. Others, by share name you can assign with no p/w to specific folders (or sub-folders) on the drive. So you have have \\drivename\pictures, \\drivename\movies, \\drivename\games, \\drivename\programs, etc., but there would be no restriction to access.
If all you want it an FTP style, then use FTP for the USB drive. You never mentioned your Router, so find the MANUAL in SUPPORT above and read it how to set up FTP. The implementation though is just like normal sharing. That is only 2 types, protected by p/w or not. I guess you could create as many different protected shares as you wanted, but only tell the one you want to use a specific share the share name and p/w. Of course, that might be totally useless as they would ALL have the same p/w (see, even to implement your 'suggestion' one might need X users, not just one, depending on how many different 'people' you wanted to support) and anyone with some level of knowledge how to see shares (like use Windows Explorer) could see all of them and by 'luck' try the same p/w and get in.
By the way, most residential routers operate like this. My old ASUS does, the NG R8000 and R7000 does, and in an even worse setup, my Archer A20 does (worse that is has ONE share name for both USB drives).