Recent content by NoorE

lol, alright, beyond my expertise for sure. Thanks all for the help on this forum, seems like me and the router have reached an uneasy truce. It will work until Asus can release a more permanent fix. Good luck with whatever else you are trying to do, thanks again, have a good one.

where is smb.conf? I've done a search on the entire disc for it, with hidden files and system files toggled to show, and come up with nothing. can you access smb.conf and edit it through FTP? as i said, I found that you have more permissions if you are accessing through FTP with it set to...

Most important part first: I have discovered that if you access the HD through FTP with it set to "share without account", you have full permissions for all folders, even the ones that have become locked out in network share or FTP "share with account". So I am using this to backup right now...

Welp, i just lost my write permissions again, so i guess it wasn't a permanent solution...maybe what fixed it momentarily was the router turning itself off and on to turn off those settings, and not the settings themselves. I'm back to square one, unfortunately...

Possibly solved? Well, I went ahead and submitted a ticket to Asus, and afterwards did some more testing. I found that: In the router GUI, under Advanced Setting -> USB Application -> FTP Share, if i set that to "Share without account", and log into the HD through FTP (I use Filezilla client)...

Similar problem Hi all, Came across this thread after Googling for answers to a similar problem. When I first set up my external HD on my RT-N56U, after some hassle, I got it working right, and could write and read, etc. I hadn't figured out automatic backup yet, but i was able to manually...