Help with my AC68U set up!

[Specious]

Hey guys,



I'm moving into a new place and trying to set up my home network and running into a problem.



I have fibre at my home and the telco provided a janky looking Optical Network Router (ONR) made by Huawei (HG8244H). I bought an ASUS RT-AC68U and was planning to set up Network Place (Samba) Share with a USB 1TB WD HDD connected to it. Setting up the wifi to run was easy, but there are several problems with my set up...



Problem #1: Network Terminal Router does not allow me to run in bridge mode.

This forces me to run the AC68U in AP mode. I had to turn off DHCP too on my ASUS. No biggie.



Problem #2: Connecting my Desktop.

Given the set up at my place, all LAN connections have to connect to the Network Terminal Router. So, the AC68U has to connect to LAN 1 of the ONR and my Desktop has to connect to LAN 2.



Given (1) and (2), we are now lead to Problem #3:

My Desktop is unable to see all the shared devices that are connected to the AC68U. Even though my phone and laptop are able to access the USB HDD and my WIFI printer, my desktop cannot see them.



So here is my question: Is there a way I can keep this set up while allowing my Desktop to see all devices that are connected to the AC68U? I've attached a screenshot of what I see when I connect into the ONR.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Are you sure you have changed the Asus to "AP mode" (Administration > Operation Mode)? It sounds like it is still in "router mode" which would explain your problem.

 

[Specious]

d'oh. that solved it.