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The login/psw (admin/password) does not work for readyshare.
I have had a Seagate portable drive connected to my R6400 netgear router for months and backing up with Time Machine on my MAC. I am not sure what happened but it stopped recogizing the R6400. I ta...
Retired_Member wrote:
The problem is between Time Machine and Netgear because the instructions are for an external drive connected to the netgear router.
Ah. Now I see. I have no idea what sort of external drive Time Machine expects to see. (Is that some sort of Mac utility?) ReadySHARE provides something that appears as a mapped drive on your network.
If you can work out how to see the USB drive attached to the router on a computer on your network, that would confirm that it is properly configured in the router. As a Windows user, I have no idea how this works on Macs. But my inclination would be to keep Time Machine out of the picture until I know the USB drive is behaving itself.
Some Netgear manuals talk about configuring for Time Machine, but the MR60 is not in there. But I did find this:
How to setup Time Machine with your NETGEAR router | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Then there is this:
I have no idea if any of that helps.
A word of warning, Netgear is steadily removing ReadySHARE features from the firmware in its routers, especially anything that depends on Cloud services.
Sometimes Netgear says it is for security reasons at others it is to make room for a service that it wants to sell. The release notes for firmware usually warn when this is happening. I have no idea if that includes whatever allows Time Machine to work.
Thank you very much for your assistance. The first link is actually the same one I sent to you that calls for the username/password of admin/password. This used to work. I believe it is netgear that changed something with readyshare and this will probably never work again.
I tried the instructions in the 2nd link but it will not recognize the hard drive connected to the router.
The good news is that I can connect the hard drive directly to my MAC and get a backup through Time Machine so I will have to do that once a week or so.
Thanks again. I truly appreciate your time and expertise.
- For what it's worth... I have a CAX80 and have been using Readyshare for over a year with an external USB drive attached with password protected shares using the router login admin and password and everything has been fine. In the last 1 to 2 weeks I can no longer access my password protected Readyshare shares. If I turn off the password protection I get to them fine. But something has changed in the last week or two that is causing the password protected shares not to accept the router login and password.
I've tried a lot of things to rectify the problem. So many that I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it. Fix will have to come the way of a firmware update. I'm assuming there is a security certificate or something somewhere that maybe has expire. Maybe not? But nothing has changed on my end. Some broke possibly with a recent firmware update. I'm not entirely sure.I have given up and am backing up once a week by connecting the hard drive directly to my MAC. It is nice to know though that I am not the only one with this problem! Thank you!
