radon85 wrote:
The point of this thread is to collect input on an alternate solution that I believe would be easy for Netgear to implement. Then based on the feedback, I plan to submit a proposal soon.

I guess you miss the point of the responses here too? See mine starting @ 2019-12-16 03:59 AM for instance.

I went round and round with Netgear Support on this issue for many many months. Even with the Moderator's here. Support would close my case often stating the router was working correctly. Moderator's would re-open it, and the same circle of comments with the same result. FINAL result (the point I gave up at after months of this):

NG routers ARE running SMB 3 (mostly).
SMB 3 alone doesn't 'cut it', they have to be exposed to the LAN (read that as WSD must be implented as well in the router).
For the R7000 and R8000 at least WSD is not implemented. Only sharing method is NETBIOS which requires SMB 1.
There is NO design for WSD in some routers.
Support will not IMPLEMENT WSD in those routers without a design and spec for it.
NG will not design and spec. WSD for those routers that do not have it.
They WILL buy back MY router IF under the 1 year warranty (to make me go away I guess).
NG is NOT alone in this situation. Probably all other routers produced before MS deprecating/removal of SMB 1 have this same problem.
Some MFG's have PUBLICALLY stated you MUST run SMB 1 with the router they sell.

If you think you can do better, go for it, but I would expect to be able to 'move a mountain'. As it stands now, NG is removing functions from the routers that sort of make the USB port an artifact. No TIVO, DLNA, or TIME MACHINE support. Some MFG's also have removed the Printer from being used with the USB port.

On the otherhand, with today's A/V's and Firewall's, if kept current, the threat of someone attacking SMB 1 is lessened. MFG's are also including Security s/w in the routers too, although from my experience with a router that has that and when the device's Norton 360 report are quite different. Probably router bases Security is a weak sister to device based Security based on execution, not where the TCP/IP packets come from, but what the device does with those packets after they are assembled.

Again, GOOD LUCK... with a company that can't seem to even produce a stable firmware with 'fixes', much less add a function and have it work right out of the box.

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