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Hello,

I just connected a USB hard drive to my WNDR3500v2 but can't access it. I am running Gargoyle 1.53 and everything else works so I assume I just need to setup the drive location somehow. Can anyone help me with this? The drive is a WD 640 GB- NTFS.

Thanks

ntfs is not recommended for use on linux, as the ntfs driver is too slow.
If you want to try (I am also using ntfs, as I want to be able to attach it to a computer once in a while).
To be able to use ntfs run this through ssh and then reboot the router.

Hello,

Thanks for the advice. I gave it a try but still can't access the disk. It always showed up in Gargoyle before and still does. I just can't access it through Windows Explorer (its a Vista machine) or in a browser. I unmounted the drive and rebooted. Same thing, this is what I see:

readyshare FAT32 254.117 GB CIFS+NFS Read/Write

The address is listed as: 192.168.1.1:/nfs/readyshare

Any other ideas? I'm still thinking this is just something simple that I don't know about. I have never used Open-WRT or anything w/Linux before trying Gargoyle a couple months ago. Prior to Gargoyle I had this same drive connected to the WNDR3700v2 and it was running fine over the network when my router was on the stock Netgear firmware (the disk was mounted originally via the Netgear Readyshare utility, hence the readyshare name for the disk).

Thanks

To be able to access the HDD from Windows, you should change the "share type" to CIFS.
Then you can access the HDD easily when visiting this address

That did it! I figured it was just my lack of knowledge rather than a router/Gargoyle problem. The drive and partitions are mapped and accessible. THANKS!

2ks-kyle wrote:That did it! I figured it was just my lack of knowledge rather than a router/Gargoyle problem. The drive and partitions are mapped and accessible. THANKS!

Perfect.
Your welcome

Thank you very much. I couldn't find the answer anywhere until I came across this. It took me a few moments longer until I realized that I needed to add the shared disk.

My question is, how do you unmount just 1 drive? Or do I just unmount all drives and unplug and replug in the other drive? I am using a TP-Link WDR4300.

Thank you

I'm nearly there but unable to log onto the network drive that I've created. The network drive appears in Windows 7 with it's name and underneath the word 'share', but when I try to access it it responds with Enter Network Password. When I enter the password I set up for the user I get the message 'Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password'.

Any ideas?

gargoyle version?

1.9.0.2