RT-N66U: Is possible to mount a remote disk on router (cifs, nfs) to download on it?

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

As stated in the title, I would like to know if it's possible to mount on the router a remote disk, either through CIFS/NFS or what else, to download files over it.

I own an rt-n66u (with merlin 374.43) and would like to download files on a small NAS (that I don't own: must buy it). In this way I can avoid the performance issue created by USB.

I don't own a NAS right now, but considering I like the software used to download on RT-N66U I will be ok even with a NAS that has only software to share my remote drives, so maybe I can spend less money (I'm completely out of money right now).

Is this possible? Eventually, how?

 

[L&LD]

Haven't used the Asus download feature(s), so can't say if you can direct the downloads to a different location; but almost any NAS you buy will have that feature too.

 

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Haven't used the Asus download feature(s), so can't say if you can direct the downloads to a different location; but almost any NAS you buy will have that feature too.

Not the asus downloader sorry, I mean Transmission and Pyload. And yea you can choose the download path by simply editing the config file (so it would be easy to actually download on a remotely mounted disk).

What I'm not sure is if I can actually mount NFS or cifs (or anything else, don't know what else is available) on rt-n66u, that's what am I asking: is it possible?

I definitely know you can allow mounting router-connected drives (NFS server and Samba server) but I don't know if router has also NFS client and Samba client capabilities.

 

[RMerlin]

I definitely know you can allow mounting router-connected drives (NFS server and Samba server) but I don't know if router has also NFS client and Samba client capabilities.

Not with the stock firmware.

 

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Not with the stock firmware.

Sorry, I definitely forgot to mention, I use your firmware.

 

[RMerlin]

Sorry, I definitely forgot to mention, I use your firmware.

SMB shares can be manually mounted - see the README included with the firmware.

I do not recommend using NFS on the RT-N66U, it's not stable.

 

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

SMB shares can be manually mounted - see the README included with the firmware.

I do not recommend using NFS on the RT-N66U, it's not stable.

Thanks a lot, I'm checking readme, that's perfect.
I also take advantage of the moment to thank you for the beautiful firmware (I use it extensively: ssh, entware, transmission and pyload, openvpn, etc.). You did a great job.

 

[Nerre]

That's what I'm doing, running transmission on the router, downloads are saved on the HTPC-server. The only problem I have is to make sure the samba drive is mounted before transmission starts, I've solved it with a 20 second sleep, but there may be better ways.

 

[netware5]

It is possible to download on remote share. I've managed it with Rtorrent. See HERE THE TUTORIAL I MADE I do believe that similar configuration is possible with Transmission.

I am using the above configuration since the beginning of May without any issues.