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USB Drive permission issues on NetGear Readynas 102
Hi,
I recently purchased a netgear readynas 102. And i have some trouble configuring it correctly. Hope anyone can help. I put a empty 500 gb drive in bay 1 to get the NAS up and running. I also have a 1,5 tb external hard disk which i connected to the nas through usb. I can see the external drive in the gui under media. I have given the disk acces to all, even anonymous users. I can find the external drive in the netwerk just fine. I have mapped it to my PC and can read from it just fine. However if i try to write to it this proves difficult. In windows i can't delete files or copy files to the external usb drive. Also apps such as sickbeard or transmission don't have enough rights to write to the volume. Am i doing something wrong or is this the limitation of the NAS? A friend told me this model can only read usb NTSF shares, but not write to them. I have tried to find information on this in the FAQ and in the manual but i can't find anything about it. Can someone please help me with this?
I recently purchased a netgear readynas 102. And i have some trouble configuring it correctly. Hope anyone can help. I put a empty 500 gb drive in bay 1 to get the NAS up and running. I also have a 1,5 tb external hard disk which i connected to the nas through usb. I can see the external drive in the gui under media. I have given the disk acces to all, even anonymous users. I can find the external drive in the netwerk just fine. I have mapped it to my PC and can read from it just fine. However if i try to write to it this proves difficult. In windows i can't delete files or copy files to the external usb drive. Also apps such as sickbeard or transmission don't have enough rights to write to the volume. Am i doing something wrong or is this the limitation of the NAS? A friend told me this model can only read usb NTSF shares, but not write to them. I have tried to find information on this in the FAQ and in the manual but i can't find anything about it. Can someone please help me with this?
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- What firmware are you running ?
How was the USB disk formatted?
How does the USB disk appear in the NAS GUI, you say it appears under media, is media one of the NAS shares? - I am running 6.1.6, the disk was formatted NTFS.
Your last question i don't really know how to answer. When i look at the GUI i see a tree with two main branches
1. DATA
Under data all the internal NAS folders appear and i can create new ones
2. MEDIA
Under Media I see USB_HDD_1 and further down all the folders from my external USB drive
Does this make it any clearer what i mean? - I switched the drives and formatted my 500 GB drive as fat32 andere now i can write to it without problems. Why was this not in the manual and why is there no support from readynas tech people on this forum?? Shouldn't be a hard question for them to answer.
- FAT32 does have a limit of 4 GB per file.
- I know. But what is the alternative? If it is indeed true the readynas cannot write to USB NTFS disk I really don't see any other option. I will keep my movie files on the nas itself. These are the only files I have larger than 4 gb
- There is of course the option of using e.g. EXT3.
- All py PC's have windows on them. can I still read them in windows while formatted to ext 3 or 4?
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