ASUS RT-N66U: USB Drive is not writeable

[EaterOfPenguins]

So it seems like this question comes up a lot, and I've read every other piece of advice I can find, but nothing seems to accomplish what I want to do.

I just got a N66U and a WD MyBook 4TB drive tonight. I set up the router with my usual wireless settings, and on that front it seems great.

What I desperately want to accomplish, and large part of why I bought the router, is to be able to simply see the USB drive from along with the other hard drives in the My Computer view, to open it, to drag and drop and copy files to and from it freely when I'm connected to the network. I do not desire to access this drive via the internet, and I do not want it as a one-way media server.

I want to be able to freely access the drive from my Windows 8 PC, in the same manner I have done in the past when i've had shared drives on other PCs on the network.

I plugged in the USB drive to the router, and the N66U it seems to recognize it just fine. It's mounted. I even went to the Samba / Network Places section of the USB applications. I turned on sharing, I turned on allow guest login. I'm not sure what these things have done, but they certainly haven't let me accomplish what I set out to do. Please help!

 

[L&LD]

Is the drive formatted as NTFS? That could be the reason, along with the size / capacity?

 

[Ozzy9999]

Even using Windows to format a ext3 drive won't work well. The only time I had success was when I formatted a drive ext3 with my Ubuntu server.