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Have a samba share set up on my router using an external USB3 drive. Was working well for a number of days (Macbook as well as Raspberry Pi connecting and reading and writing to the share with no issues) but it now no longer works. The specific behaviour I’m seeing now is; With Mac OS, any...

Thanks to both of you!

Many thanks for the tip. Does that propagate the change down to the sub-folders as well though? Also, any idea why the Router GUI config page setting (of R/W) doesn't work - I'm thinking if I want to change it in the future to different permissions for different users, where I need to do this...

Hoping to get some help on this immediate issue as well as to better understand the technical knowledge around this in general... Short version: I think I have a unix permissions issue with an external drive plugged into an Asus 68U router (and that is shared using Samba 2) which prevents users...

All this is whilst connected locally - no VPN in the picture at the moment. So simply wifi connection to the Asus router, which is in turn connected to the Netgear modem (via ASUS WAN port).

Am onsite now sorting this out and I can report that switching the D200 to Modem (Bridge Mode) only does work. The Modem LAN port is connected to the ASUS RT-AC66U_B1 Router WAN port. I had to enter the ISP ADSL connection details in the ASUS WAN config page. My test computer is now connected...

Thanks for the fantastic pointers on this - I didn't spot that line in the manual. As mentioned, I only have a small window of time to try things out when I'm at my parent's house hence, the slight pre-emptive question, but your pointer above gives me confidence on this. One question though...

Hi everyone, I'm looking to set up a LAN at my parents house using the following gear:- Netgear D200 ADSL Modem Router ASUS RT-AC66U_B1 Router running latest version of Merlin The key requirements, over and above basic access to the internet, are to:- Run a OpenVPN server and DDNS service...