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Title: Storage access via windows mapped network drive - SOLVED
Post by: chuim on October 28, 2013, 08:42:27 PM

Hello.

I'm trying to access my external HD that I attached to my DIR-860L USB port as a Windows network drive. I can find the router and it shows the drive as a mapped folder but:

• I can only access it using the Admin account; any other users I configure can't login
• After entering the folder, even though Admin as read/write access I can't in fact change existing files nor create new ones

Is there anyone with experience on that topic that could help me out?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Storage access via windows mapped network drive
Post by: FurryNutz on October 29, 2013, 07:17:56 AM

Try these?
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=46133.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=46133.0)

Or

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=52676.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=52676.0)

Title: Re: Storage access via windows mapped network drive
Post by: chuim on November 02, 2013, 11:24:25 PM

I had already read those before I posted. But in fact I found the issue!

The problem was simply bad permissions in my NTFS volume. I followed all the guides I found online on how to set those up properly for a shared external drive and even so it didn't work. I finally decided to copy everything out of it, format and copy all back. And now it works just fine when attached to my router.

And BTW, is there a list of the supported partition types? I know about NTFS and I guess FAT32 should also be, but does it support Linux generated partitions like ext3?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Storage access via windows mapped network drive - (RESOLVED)
Post by: FurryNutz on November 03, 2013, 09:47:02 AM

The only partitions mainly supported on D-Link routers is NTFS and FAT. FAT32 isn't nor is any other partition format type.

Glad you got it working. Enjoy.