Unable to share USB drive

Hi,

I am using the WL-500gP with original firmware 1.9.6.9 (had the same problem with 1.9.6.7) and a 100GB USB drive (FAT32, one 100G partition).
Download Master can access the drive, alas works only if the WL-500gP is newly booted - after a while downloads won't start any more.

The real issue is that I cannot share the USB drive in the workgroup. When I try to share nodes in the admin tool all I see is the primary partition (part0) - when I double click on it to descend the folder tree I get no response from the router and after a while I get a message like "connection interrupted ..."
(translated from german). Similarly I see the WL-500gP in my network neighbourhood but there's no shared nodes.

- Could the problem be related to the single 100GB partition ? I read some posts suggesting that the max. supported partition size is 32GB.

- Could it be a samba related problem ? What would be a good way to edit the smb.conf file ?

Any help or suggestions on this is appreciated

kiselak

Hi,

I cannot solve your problem, but I have some information for you:

I am using an ext3 formatted 300GB harddisk and it is working. I had it formatted with NTFS previously, but since NTFS write support is missing, I switched to ext3. It should also work with FAT32, as far as I know, there is no such size limitation of 32GB.

Had the same problem with an ext2 usb disk (firmware 1.9.6.9)
also the download master can't get connect to the disk.

Did work by me after i put the media server off and on again
then it goes to make some new maps also for the download master.

I also have problems with the ftp server so for now i put it off.

If it's on i have no rights to acces the maps on usb disk
it keeps asking voor inlog/pass also after i put in te right one

this is with setting login to first shared node.

In this mode from the internet i have acces to all the maps
with no inlog/pass at all.

Gr.Rene

I'm not able to share my harddisk! I tried all of your suggestions regarding formats and sizes but none of them worked!

When I watch my USB Status, there is nothing detected at all!

But when I take a look into the SystemLog I can see the following when attaching my usb harddrive:

Aug 4 00:12:15 USB webcam: attached

I'm using 1.9.6.9 firmware with a Philips SPD5110CC (250 GB)!

I'm really hopeless now! Is it worth to give oleg's firmware a try?? Or will I get the same result?? Please help!

Greets,
cdcdsr :confused: