spokey
Occasional Visitor
New to this forum and not a wireless question but it is a merlin question. Also new to Merlin and ASUS routers (got this about a week ago)
I can't see an attached HD or USB drive on the windows network. That is it does not show up in file explorer.
It is accessible and I can see both in a command line net view \\router-name. I can map it with net use <drive>: \\router\share-name as well.
My main reason for going to Merlin was so I could get rid of SMBv1. This is a home network with a couple win7, 2 win 8.1, and 3 win 10 (2 pro, 1 home). I know others think SMBv1 is OK in a home environment, but I figured it's old, MS says don't use it etc. So I finally got everything working on v2 by auto starting some services etc. on the PCs. Everything that is except the HD on the router visibility. I installed Merlin this afternoon expecting that with SMBv2 support that would put the finishing touch on all this.
Right now I have the protocol on the router set to v1 & v2. I can see it in explorer on a win 7 machine I've switched back to SMBv1 but no where else. The net view & map on the command line cited above is from a win 8.1 machine.
I can't see an attached HD or USB drive on the windows network. That is it does not show up in file explorer.
It is accessible and I can see both in a command line net view \\router-name. I can map it with net use <drive>: \\router\share-name as well.
My main reason for going to Merlin was so I could get rid of SMBv1. This is a home network with a couple win7, 2 win 8.1, and 3 win 10 (2 pro, 1 home). I know others think SMBv1 is OK in a home environment, but I figured it's old, MS says don't use it etc. So I finally got everything working on v2 by auto starting some services etc. on the PCs. Everything that is except the HD on the router visibility. I installed Merlin this afternoon expecting that with SMBv2 support that would put the finishing touch on all this.
Right now I have the protocol on the router set to v1 & v2. I can see it in explorer on a win 7 machine I've switched back to SMBv1 but no where else. The net view & map on the command line cited above is from a win 8.1 machine.