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[frogbite]

Hi all,

I recently purchased a Belkin N+ router which turned out to be a big piece of garbage.  The one thing though that this router did that the DIR-825 doesn't is give me access to shared storage via the USB connection on the router.  I love the router except that most of my machines are either Linux or Solaris.  I installed the sharedport software on my wife's laptop and it works great.  I also installed it on a Virtual XP machine on my FedoraCore 11 box and was able to access it via samba. 

I read that Silex was working on or has developed an API for Linux.  Does anyone have news on this.  If I were to go to OpenWRT, would I lose any functionality?  Is anyone using this and using the USB port for storage and able to share that with other operating systems via iscsi or samba? 

It is amazing that D-Link does not look past Windows.  It really isolates customers as myself.  If I don't find a solution I will probably look for something else as my primary reason for going to Belkin from a linksys WRT54G was to have network storage without have to connect it to a machine that would be always on for that purpose.

Thanks,

-Bennett

[groovomata]

I too would be interested in a solution to this. I like the DIR-825 but unless I can find away to gain linux access to shared storage via the usb then I may have to consider OpenWrt or DD-Wrt.