November 18, 20187 yr Yeah. I tried. I googled. Nothing seems to be working. Router is a Netgear R6250. Hard drive is attached via USB and powered on. Any help appreciated.
November 19, 20187 yr Plug that shit in Start then run//readyshareTry thatSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
November 19, 20187 yr Here is a tip guide with many articles on your router: https://www.netgear.com/support/product/r6250.aspx#ConfigurationAssistance_CommonTopics from page 11 of the guide: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R6250/R6250_IG_6pCvr+Interior_10Aug2014.pdf Quote ReadySHARE Access You can connect a USB storage device or printer to the USB port on the router and share it on the network. To access the USB drive from a Windows computer: 1. Insert your USB storage drive into the USB port on the router. 2. If your USB drive has a power supply, you must use it when you connect the USB drive to the router. When you connect the USB drive to the router USB port, it might take up to two minutes before it is ready for sharing. By default, the USB drive is available to all computers on your local area network (LAN). 3. Select Start > Run. 4. Enter \\readyshare in the dialog box. 5. Click the OK button. To access the USB drive from a Mac: 1. Insert your USB storage drive into the USB port on the router. 2. If your USB drive has a power supply, you must use it when you connect the USB drive to the router. When you connect the USB drive to the router USB port, it might take up to two minutes before it is ready for sharing. By default, 12 the USB drive is available to all computers on your local area network (LAN). 3. Select Go > Connect to Server. 4. Enter smb://readyshare as the server address. 5. Click the Connect button. Not sure what the readyshare does above. It could also be that, just a guess, you need to be sure your router 'network' is the same as your usb hdd network if it is an ip enabled device. The NAT(network address translation) local address network is usually something like: 192.168.0.xxx with xxx being 2 through 254 assuming a class c network mask of 255.255.255.0 . sometimes setting a hard ip works best. so you pick a number in that range above for your device ip, be sure the mask is set right, and then be sure the gateway ip is set to the router gateway. https://www.netgear.com/support/product/r6250.aspx#docs What kind of usb drive is it? Check the manual for it as well by searching googles for the model number and attaching to router. I'll be out of town for the next week so very little internet access. Edited November 19, 20187 yr by zork
November 19, 20187 yr Author I got it. The issue seemed to be that I had changed the name of it some time ago so \\readyshare wasn't working. Once I figured out the name and the credentials I was able to access it.
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