AC-68 Samba Share Drive Not Showing In Finder

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Hi, I'm running Merlin 376.47 and have two 2TB USB 2.0 drives plugging into the AC68.

One of them is set up as Time Machine backup and is working great. The other used to occasionally show up in Finder and then stopped showing up. No matter how many times I reboot the router or MacBook running Mavericks, I don't see that drive show up any more.

Looking through the settings, I see it is enabled with R/W and should be available to the network as a quasi-NAS. Enable Share and Enable Guest Login are both turned on. All the other samba preferences are off.

Any ideas on what I might have overlooked?

 

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If you're using SMB/CIFS - Mavericks changed out Samba for their own SMB stack...

At the desktop, can you mount the missing drive via the following?

In the Finder - Go menu - connect to server - try

smb://(IP address of the SMB server)

cifs://(IP address of the SMB server)

If you can find it there - then perhaps the plist is damaged somehow...

In terminal:

su -

(enter in your primary Admin password)

cp ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf.bak

rm ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf

Reboot the Mac, and see what happens...

 

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Goes without saying, but perhaps I should - this is on your Mac, not on the router...

sfx

 

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Thanks that worked.

Rebooted the MacBook Pro and still had to manually connect to server, but that's easy.

 

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Well, the drive mounted... I can't write to it though. I can read, but don't have the permissions to write or delete. Which is a problem, because I use that drive to backup.

The other USB slot has the same model of drive plugged in, set to Time Machine and it's working great.

On the Asus router preferences, both drives are marked R/W.

I'm using Mavericks OS 10.9.5. Usually, I would be able to see permissions by right-clicking on the folder/file in Finder and selecting Get Info. But I'm not seeing that option with this drive mounted as a samba. It just says "You Have Custom Access" under permissions for the drive.

If anyone has any simple tip on how to get this working, that'd be awesome.