Problem with access via CIFS, NFS works fine

sphardy wrote:
If renaming the share solves the issue - then it would appear that maybe I was not so far off the mark. If you are content to rename the share, then that would seem to be a good workaround - but you may still wish to log a tech support case as perhaps 4.2.20 has not fully fixed the issue as hoped and Netgear need to know that

I will do so - that firmware has beta status, and i will try to give netgear everything, they need to know about that issue, whatever it is.

sphardy wrote:
Depends how you do it. If you hot-add, then your disk will *always* be wiped as this is the action to replace a disk, typically after a failure. Cold-add with no other disk installed and you should see your old configuration & data

I added it cold, but I tried before to mount the hd on a linux machine, perhaps I did it the wrong way and destroyed the partition table myself. Today I just know, something went wrong which was not too funny for me, and I will act with more caution in future :)