Asus RT-N56U External Hard drive

stokedboss

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I just bought a Asus RT-N56U and want to set up a shared hard drive on the network. I currently have it set up using Samba, and can see the drive in windows under Network/RT-N56U/...

However, I'm wondering if there is a way to network the drive so it shows up under "my computer" as a shared drive?

Right now I can't see the properties of the drive ie. free space unless I log onto the routers interface, is there a way I can get it to show up in windows so I can see the drive's properties?

I guess what I'd like to do is have the hard drive show up like a local drive, instead of through the network, like it's a separate computer. Is there any way to do this?
 
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I figured out how to do this in windows. If you go to "Computer" right above where your hard drives are there is a "map network drive" button, when you click on it it lets you map any network folder as a drive. Thanks for the help!

stokedboss

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Thanks for the reply, but I'm not totally sure what you mean. I went into the options for the drive, and it lets me set it up using Samba, which I'm doing, or as an FTP access. It also lets me set it up as a DLNA server as well. Seeing as I can see the drive in my network as a computer, are you suggesting that using the command prompt example, would tell windows to view it as a mapped network drive? Sorry, I'm pretty new to this kind of stuff.
 


If you can get to it via FTP you should be able to map it as a drive letter the same way with the "net use" command.
 

stokedboss

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I figured out how to do this in windows. If you go to "Computer" right above where your hard drives are there is a "map network drive" button, when you click on it it lets you map any network folder as a drive. Thanks for the help!
 
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