Indeed, my loose wording confused the situation - sorry, OE. Thanks, CT, for picking this up. I think we're all saying the same thing.
If anyone can influence ASUS to update their SMB support (... to SMB2 or SMB3), please do. This is causing real user heartache.
Thanks! This is just what the doctor ordered!
Fellow users: SMB1 is the file interchange protocol Microsoft invented last century. Since then, there has been SMB2 (2007), SMB3 (2012) and so on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block#SMB_/_CIFS_/_SMB1
SMB1 has security flaws, and...