RT-68R Network (Samba) Share Disk Issues

[SavageWS6]

Hello, I'm on the latest Merlin build, and I just received this router so still trying to figure stuff out.

I currently have a HDD connected to the router via USB 2.0, I am trying to configure it where I can Add the Network Place Location in Windows. In the Asus configuration, this is what it looks like

Every time in Windows I try and add the network location as a network drive in My Computer, it keeps asking me for username and password, which is what I wanna do, but it tells me Access is denied... When I am in fact settings the R/W properties, username and password correct.

If I set it to Guest Login, It works perfectly fine, but this is a security issue and not what I wanna do.

 

[albygas]

same issue

I have the same issue!

Your pc account has a password?

 

[IAAI]

Same here too ac68u running 49_2


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[RMerlin]

If you create a user on the router that has the same name as the Windows client, make sure they also have the same password, otherwise the authentication will fail.

Check the read permission of your disk, especially if using ext2/ext3/ext4 to ensure they are readable.

 

[RussellInCincinnati]

HDD connected to the router via USB 2.0, I am trying to configure it where I can Add the Network Place Location in Windows.

After much fiddling, have enabled guest (no-password) login for Samba when there is a problem with Windows 7 computers, AND there are now wired-into-the-router users who must be shielded from Samba access (i.e all the users who use the file sharing need a wireless password to join the network anyway), AND all the users who don't need filesharing USE THE GUEST NETWORK which is isolated from the Samba share.

In other words, as long as (a) there are no wired-in users who you want excluded from the Samba share and (b) all the wireless users you DO want to exclude from the Samba share are set up by you to use the isolated guest network login, consider just allowing the Samba share to be passwordless.

If this is not practical, pay special attention to the router setup and the Control Panel/System/AdvancedSystemSettings/Computer Name dialog to make sure that the computer is in the same Workgroup as the router. Also go to "change advanced settings" (in your Network and Sharing Center) and consider checkboxing the thing saying "use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers".

Also as RMerlin has said, make sure that the username and password you are using to log into the Windows 7 machine are the same username and password you have set in the Samba username list of the Merlin router.

But do think a bit as to whether or not it is essential to password protect your Samba shares. That is exactly what the Guest network feature is for--to keep some wireless users out of "rest of the network".