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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Yeah. I titted about with SMBv1, but it didn't seem to help. Maybe it's my curse with IT at the moment! :-)
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Since you also seem to be an ASUS expert, Bennor, is there any reason you can think of for why the SAMBA method of networking the same drives to XT8 nodes/router didn't work, despite FTP methods working? For my own curiosity!
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Maybe. This was not the first drive I attached. The "test" drive I attached before this worked this second time but not the first time, and has one partition. Which was the odd part for me. But either way, now it works, and I cannot thank you enough.
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Well I'll be double-dipped in {something offensive}! I just attached a drive and it worked. This is exactly the same drive, put into exactly the same USB port, with exactly the same formatting (nothing's been done to it). The only difference is the exFAT software (which presumably shouldn't...
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Yup! Mea culpa. Was on old tellies there for a sec! Re: not having any problems with NTFS, hmm. Not saying it's the formatting, and I did expect it to work, but this very thing did not work last time. I'll try and repeat the "error", obviously it's some other fool thing I'm doing.
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Hi again, Bennor. I've added the exFAT access software. As I will have (in essence) 3 drives, if I want them to be separate and mapped in Windows Explorer do I need to use the DNS Server/DHCP Server package(s)? I'm also (probably) going to use my iDrive account to do local backups (this might...
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Thanks Kildare. I'm on it!
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Thanks Bennor. I'd also read this (the article is bookmarked) but I hadn't got around to doing it yet. I think because the drives were NTSC formatted the Synology software in the drive told me I couldn't add the external drives (that's my guess). Thanks for confirming this is real. I'd...
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Thanks, Kildare. That was the first thing I tried (and is my strong preference), but it didn't work. I read that the DS218+ cannot support external drives (it might have been in the drive software/control panel itself. Drivers/BIOS/firmware etc up to date). I didn't try too hard as I thought...
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Oops! That posted as Chrome crashed. - Enabled AiProtection (dirty data stealing )&(**6%*)0s) - Enabled Firewall - Disabled WPS - Drives are attached to nodes not router (if that makes any difference) - Drives are not accessible over WAN, (good) password protected, TLS in use etc - No sensitive...
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Cheers, chris2kari, Yeah, I "discovered" the deprecation ;-) I'll keep using FTP via FileZilla. Regarding using file sharing on a home LAN via the router, I presume the concerns are based around security. Are there any tips you (or anyone can give me) on that topic? I have: - Disabled WAN...
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Thanks sfx2000. I'd read as much elsewhere, and although slow, the FTP service at least works. I also have a Synology NAS ( ~4 TB RAID-1 DS218+) on my LAN that I use as a proper NAS, and I am going to use to be my permanent local backup, now that cloud services for media are so much better...
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    P.S. I won't be using Merlin/gnuton because the current version isn't compatible with the Zenwifi XT8 (V2) router, just the v1. I have the correct ASUS firmware for V2 installed.
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    "Fun" with SAMBA on XT8 Mesh LAN (It's not working!)

    Two upfront confessions: I am a complete noob with this topic, and whilst I am IT literate, a lot of the relevant networking terminology I just don't know (For example: with as simple a thing as "\\server\share" I'm not sure exactly what each thing is, even though it's obvious! Don't get me...
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