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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    I rebooted the server this afternoon and tried again on the USB 3.0 port and it's working fine now. Thank you very much for your help. This is a project I've wanted to do for a while and it feels really good to finally make some progress.
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    It's a Toshiba Canvio Basic 1TB. The router recognized it on the 3.0 port when I was working on this earlier in the week but for some reason didn't today. But it's working on the 2.0 port. I don't know, I'll reboot the modem later and see if that helps.
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    To be clear, the drive works fine when connected directly to my laptop. Something wonky happens when I format it through the router. That indicates to me a problem with the router, not the drive.
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    OK, this seems to have done the trick! Thank you! Only weird thing still going on is that my router wouldn't recognize the drive on the USB 3.0 port. It seems to be working fine on the USB 2.0 port. I'll see if I can figure that out later tonight.
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    1. 1TB 2. Yes, I think so (that's Samba, right?) 3. I tried it with and without the FTP box on, it didn't seem to make any difference. Again, I'm not well versed in networks but doesn't FTP mainly pertain to sharing files over the internet? I'm not at that point yet.
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    Hmmm... I'll try that later. I checked and SMBv1.0 was not enabled. I kinda suspect it's something really obscure like this. fingers crossed (edit to add: I saw that when I was going through those steps but ignored it because I was running Windows 11, not 10) firmware version is:
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    Well, for one thing, I was never able to get the router/drive to appear under the "Computer" tab of File Explorer (step 11 in your attachment, which was one of the sources I was using for this). I had to manually enter the IP address (198.168.1.1) in the File Explorer box to get the drive to...
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    I was able to copy from the laptop to the mounted external drive on the router, but I did not try copying the other way. (it's not mounted now and I'm about to have to leave so I don't have time to try that atm).
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    I did look around for an oddball default setting but nothing obvious popped up. But as I hinted at earlier, my knowledge of networks is tenuous at best so there may well be some deeply hidden settings I'm not finding. I'm not sure what version of Windows my wife's laptop is running. That was on...
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    Funny you mention formatting, because when I first started this project I reformatted the external hard drive through the router's interface, because whatever I was reading said to do that, and it got stuck during the process. I thought I'd ruined the drive (it wouldn't even read from my laptop)...
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    1. I'm using Windows File Explorer to view the files (Windows 11 Home) 2. All I have is the home router, so I'm trying to connect to the local network. Nothing remote yet, although if I can get this to work I might take that next step. 3. For now, "backing up" was just manually copy/pasting some...
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    Setting up external hard drive on USB port of AC68U

    I'm trying to set up an external hard drive through a USB port on my RT-AC680 to use as a backup storage for our home laptops, and (hopefully) eventually use it as cloud storage for my daughter's kabillion iPhone pictures. I'm not really sure how best to explain the problem. When I try to open...
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