I am trying to connect a Seagate Backup Plus Hub to my Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router Model R8000.
OS: Windows 10
Hard drive is connected directly to the Netgear router using the USB 3 port. The hard drive whirrs when I connect it to the port and its light turns on.
When I select Start > Run and enter \\readyshare in the dialog box and click the OK button, I get a Windows message: “Network error – Windows cannot access \\readyshare”
I have tried the following:
Using a different backup drive (WD passport)
Attempting to connect from a different Windows computer
I have seen rare reports of drives as big as 6 TB, but 4 TB seems to be the limit. Anything that requires fancy drivers, exotic formatting or supporting software is not going to work on what us essentially a very basic alternative to proper Ethernet NAS.
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Same Issue Cannot even browse the router, shows up in my network nighborhood as the name I assigned it and it says unaccessable. It worked a while and quit. I can access the drive through web on port 80 but the computer will not map no matter what I do, I ran troubleshooter through a differnt PC and it says connection is refused by the Router itself. I have tried setting with and without passwords,, No Joy
Model: R8000P|Nighthawk X6S AC4000 Tri Band WiFi Router
