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Paragon NTFS for IOS
Hi all I am new to Netgear routers and have just purchased a Nighthawk X6 R8000 router to connect to a Virgin super hub to try to eliminate the super hubs short falls Now I have the nighthawk I...
Okay thanks, I think I got that round the wrong way in my head.
So I will format the drive to what best suits my needs that the router can handle, Great thanks
> [...] what my thoughts are is to format the hard drive to NTFS and use
> Paragon NTFS for OX S for my Mac, [...]
The NTFS-on-disk part of that makes some sense. (Netgear claims to
support that.)
I suspect that you're working too hard. A client system like your
Mac has very little interest in the file system on the shared volume.
Your Mac (or other client device) does not deal directly with the remote
storage device; it deals directly with the file-sharing software
("samba", I'd guess) which runs on the file server (the router, in this
case).
When you "Connect to Server..." in your Finder, and specify
"smb://<your_router>", then you'll be dealing with the router's
file-sharing software using the SMB protocol. (Or,
"afp://<your_router>" to use Apple Filing Protocol.) What's actually on
the disk (or other storage volume) is largely invisible to the client.
File-system software like "Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon
Software" is useful for a _locally_connected_ NTFS volume, not for a
remote shared NTFS volume.
https://www.paragon-software.com/us/home/ntfs-mac/
> [...] any ideas how a NTSF formatted hard drive can be used by iOS
> devices to edit files?
I don't know how to do anything with files, local or remote, on an
iOS system. But if I did, and if the files were on some remote server
(like my router), then I wouldn't worry about any file-system software
for iOS. (Only file-sharing software.)
Thanks for the help, so basically I am over thinking it, if I formatted the disk to APFS the windows users will still have completed access to edit files etc
> [...] if I formatted the disk to APFS the windows users will still
> have completed access to edit files etcOr no one would. See:
I don't see APFS in that list. Again, if you're connecting a storage
device (like a USB-connected disk) to some computer (like the one in
your router), then the file-system software/firmware _on_that_computer_
(your router) needs to deal with the actual file system on the storage
device.> Your Mac (or other client device) does not deal directly with the remote
> storage device; it deals directly with the file-sharing software
> ("samba", I'd guess) which runs on the file server (the router, in this
> case).Still true.
In general, I'd expect Netgear to support NTFS better than any
Apple-specific file system.Okay thanks, I think I got that round the wrong way in my head.
So I will format the drive to what best suits my needs that the router can handle, Great thanks