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External Hard Drive on network..

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  • 07-11-2010 9:17pm
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    Jimsters
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭


    Recently set up a proper home network and the final piece of the puzzle was adding an external hard drive through the usb connection on the router. Heres my problem.. While i can read/access all the content on the hard drive through the network, I cant remove, add or change any content on the hard drive. I checked the permissions and the folders are all read only so i have tried change the permissions to allow full control to the users in the house but I cant even change these.. I also plug the hard drive directly into laptop and changed the permissions but they default back once it back on the network.. any help or suggestions much appreciated..


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    akamossie
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭akamossie


    you might have setup a full access to the folders only, you have to apply it for the folders, sub folders and files within the folders


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    Jimsters
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Jimsters


    hi - thanks for the suggestion, i tried it but still the same. When trying to amend detail - even just renaming folder - it says file or folder does not exist. Obviously it does as the content was on the hard driver before connecting to the network. I have even tried adding a new folder which i did, but I couldnt even set or rename this folder :mad:

    I have also accessed the router settings and could not see anything permissions etc for added devices... so confused


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    Wcool
    Registered Users Posts: 634 ✭✭✭Wcool


    Do you have telnet or ssh access to your router? If this sounds like gobblegook to you, you probably better reading up on this in some HowTo guide of your router.

    But here are the basics: your router is 99.99% running a version of Linux. Windows compatibility is provided by a set of programs collectively called Samba. You can get 'into' your router by command line by using a telnet or ssh program to modify your settings directly. Usually drives are in /mnt or /media. And samba in /etc/samba

    Let me know if this goes to quickly but please try to read up on this stuff on some forum about your router.


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