I'm having issues with Windows drives mapped to the share on my RT-AC68U staying connected. The initial drive mapping works smoothly, but come back an hour or two later, the mapped drive is no longer connected. If I remap it, it does the same thing. Happening on all three of the Win 10 Home edition PCs on my home LAN.
Router Setup
Merlin 386.5_2
Repeater Mode
Router is connected to my LAN via WiFi only.
ioSafe Solo 3 USB drive connected to USB3 port on router.
The signal strength at the router is great at -38 dBm, running at 144 Mbps.
See more router config below.
I've found that with WINS server enabled, I have much more trouble mapping a drive to the share. Often completely unable to. (I know next to nothing about WINS servers, so disabling it was just a poke and hope effort, but seemed to really ease the mapping process.)
Also, the share is not showing up in the network section of my PCs. Not sure why. When mapping the drive, I have to enter the the following text as the folder in the drive mapping dialog box: \\RT-AC68U-SHARE\FireWolfMyRoot\Backup4All, where "FireWolfMyRoot" is a folder at the root level of the USB drive. You can see it in the USB path tree at the bottom of the bipmap below. I have not enabled SMB1 on my Windows machines since I have SMB2 running on the router. I have the share user and password set up in the mapping, with reconnect at signin set as well. I am an experienced electrical engineer, but networking is not my forte.
Router Setup
Merlin 386.5_2
Repeater Mode
Router is connected to my LAN via WiFi only.
ioSafe Solo 3 USB drive connected to USB3 port on router.
The signal strength at the router is great at -38 dBm, running at 144 Mbps.
See more router config below.
I've found that with WINS server enabled, I have much more trouble mapping a drive to the share. Often completely unable to. (I know next to nothing about WINS servers, so disabling it was just a poke and hope effort, but seemed to really ease the mapping process.)
Also, the share is not showing up in the network section of my PCs. Not sure why. When mapping the drive, I have to enter the the following text as the folder in the drive mapping dialog box: \\RT-AC68U-SHARE\FireWolfMyRoot\Backup4All, where "FireWolfMyRoot" is a folder at the root level of the USB drive. You can see it in the USB path tree at the bottom of the bipmap below. I have not enabled SMB1 on my Windows machines since I have SMB2 running on the router. I have the share user and password set up in the mapping, with reconnect at signin set as well. I am an experienced electrical engineer, but networking is not my forte.