Set up Asus N66U router to recognize USB drive letters and partitions

dg27 · Jul 10, 2015

I used an Asus N16 router briefly and switched to the Asus N66U. It has two USB ports that allow external drives to be connected. When I set up the N16 and plugged in a USB drive that has 2 partitions, the drive letters and partition names were shown in Windows Explorer by expanding the name of the router under 'Network.' I was able to map those in Win 7 Pro 64x as network drives.

It was like that initially as well with the N66 (I saw the drive letters and names).

Now, for unknown reasons, when I click on the name of the router in Windows Explorer, all I get is a list of all of the folders on those partitions. This is pretty useless for my purposes.

If anyone is familiar with this router and knows how to set this up I'd appreciate hearing about it.

boosted1g · Jul 10, 2015

No one really has good luck with stable fast hard drive shares connected with USB routers unfortunately.

I wish I could be of more help then that.

dg27 · Jul 10, 2015

boosted1g :

I thought of a possible workaround: placing the folders in each partition into a new top level folder and then mapping that folder as a network drive.

But now the router disappeared completely from Windows Explorer. I have to resolve that before trying my workaround.

boosted1g :

Just telling me I'm not alone is help in and of itself. Thanks.

jsmithepa · Jul 10, 2015

Well I don't have an answer but I know this is called NOT MOUNTING the drives. You have to load an App/driver to access those drives correct? is there a configuration setting there somewhere?

dg27 · Jul 10, 2015

jsmithepa :

I'm not sure about the 'not mounting.' And for the life of me I couldn't find a setting that allowed me to see the drives themselves. I know it's possible, because I did see it that way before I started screwing around with Samba. I must say that the GUI sucks because it's really difficult to determine what any setting actually does.

I have no interest in cloud, ftp, or remote sharing. I just wanted my two desktops and two laptops to see these folders as drives. (They're actually backup storage and I wanted the folder structures to match where the 'originals' reside.)

The router reappeared in Windows Explorer and expanding it showed the top-level folders I created (which were actually just the names of the drives I had assigned). I was able to map those top-level folders in Windows. They now appear as "Network Locations" with the drive letters I assigned.

I hated just leaving a slew of folders under the router name.

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