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Have a USB disk attached to router (TP-LINK WR1043ND), when CIFS Access Policy is Allow Anonymous Access then all is fine, I can access the disk and read/write to/from it (OS = Windows 7 x64).

BUT, when policy is Require User & Password I can NOT get access to the drive. I can see it but that's it. Of course for testing user and password were very simple and I made sure I entered the info correctly.

CIFS Workgroup is set to homegroup all PC's in the network use although the USB drive also shows up when CIFS Workgroup is something random. What domain should I use when entering user name? Is it the default 'lan'?

I'm very confused by all this.

Another question, let's assume I'm able to fix this problem with help on the forum here and I can access the USB drive with user and password, how can I access the USB drive from outside my network (I know my IP adres via dyndns)? Is it accessible via a browser? Do I just go to http://[myipaddress]/GARGOYLE ?

Thanks for any info.

Regards,

Dr.R. Clavan

It is a known issue from OpenWrt (the base system of Gargoyle). It uses a very old (3.0.x) version of Samba and is not compatible with Windows Vista/7. This version was stripped down manually to achieve a small binary and memory footprint, and it seems nobody wants to do the same again for newer, win7 compatible, versions (3.4+). Building samba without stripping the unneeded features will produce a ~4Mb binary and very memory hungry.

Gargoyle does not provide any web-based file management. It would be better to install a FTP Server and open the desired ports to the internet.

Thanks very much for your explanation!