AC66U Mapped drive stopped working?

[Denim_Jackson]

I had drives mapped to //RT-AC66U/x in Windows 7 that suddenly stopped working this week. The only change I can think of that I made was adding a password to my windows login?

Anyway, I pulled my hair out last night and today trying to get them to work again by adjusting the Samba settings, but nothing did the trick. Finally I was able to remove the maps to //RT-AC66U/x and replace them with //192.168.1.1/x which seems to work fine... but I'm still perplexed as to why mapping to RT-AC66U just stopped.

Any ideas?

 

[bachastain]

I had drives mapped to //RT-AC66U/x in Windows 7 that suddenly stopped working this week. The only change I can think of that I made was adding a password to my windows login?

Anyway, I pulled my hair out last night and today trying to get them to work again by adjusting the Samba settings, but nothing did the trick. Finally I was able to remove the maps to //RT-AC66U/x and replace them with //192.168.1.1/x which seems to work fine... but I'm still perplexed as to why mapping to RT-AC66U just stopped.

Any ideas?

I'm pretty sure my device name changed in recent builds. It was RT-N16 and one day I noticed it had changed to "RT-N16-676A". I have no idea why, or what the 676A means. Maybe something in hex.

Bruce.

 

[Martineau]

I'm pretty sure my device name changed in recent builds. It was RT-N16 and one day I noticed it had changed to "RT-N16-676A". I have no idea why, or what the 676A means. Maybe something in hex.

Bruce.

I believe this device samba/name change occurred with the .44? release where ASUS added the last 4 hex digits of the MAC address to the name string - presumably to make the router unique if there are several same-model ASUS RT-routers deployed in the local network.......

Rgards

 

[RMerlin]

SMB device name can be changed on the page where you configure your SMB sharing.

Asus overhauled this a few months ago, adding the possibility of changing these names and having different names for DLNA, iTunes, SMB, etc... They also made the default name more unique to accommodate scenarios where you have multiple routers of the same model on your network.