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[chuim]

Hello.

I'm trying to access my external HD that I attached to my DIR-860L USB port as a Windows network drive. I can find the router and it shows the drive as a mapped folder but:

• I can only access it using the Admin account; any other users I configure can't login
• After entering the folder, even though Admin as read/write access I can't in fact change existing files nor create new ones

Is there anyone with experience on that topic that could help me out?

Thanks!

[FurryNutz]

Try these?
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=46133.0

Or

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=52676.0

[chuim]

I had already read those before I posted. But in fact I found the issue!

The problem was simply bad permissions in my NTFS volume. I followed all the guides I found online on how to set those up properly for a shared external drive and even so it didn't work. I finally decided to copy everything out of it, format and copy all back. And now it works just fine when attached to my router.

And BTW, is there a list of the supported partition types? I know about NTFS and I guess FAT32 should also be, but does it support Linux generated partitions like ext3?

Thanks!

[FurryNutz]

The only partitions mainly supported on D-Link routers is NTFS and FAT. FAT32 isn't nor is any other partition format type.

Glad you got it working. Enjoy.