In short, the good news is that I finally got network drive access via Samba to work. I'd like to provide some updates after toying around with my router for a bit. Thank you all for your helpful responses, and my apologies for the delayed response things began to get hectic with work and I had to spend all of Memorial Day Weekend visiting family. I also used to be able to map a network drive via SMB using my old router, and everything worked fine: I was prompted to enter my credentials and it was smooth sailing from there on out. However, my network is set to private and fire sharing is enabled. These are currently the settings of my router:Īfter diagnosing the error with Windows, I am returned with 'The device or resource is not set up to accept connections on port 'The File and printer sharing (SMB)' which is leading me to think that this may be a Windows issue or perhaps a firewall issue. My router named 'Samba' is detectable in my local network, but his is the error I get when I try to access it: Currently I'm trying to set up network drive access via Samba, and I'm running into a strange issue where the router is detectable by Windows, but cannot be accessed. I received it two days ago and the first thing I did was flash the latest Merlin release.

Thanks to the excellent advice I received on the SNB Forums, I purchased an RT-AC66U_B1 and have been very happy with it. I'm honestly stumped at what should be an extremely simple thing to set up without hiccups. However, my network is set to private and file sharing is enabled. This doesn't change when I enter my router's IP address directly into Windows Explorer, when I map my router + hard drive as a network drive, or when I add my router as a network location.Īfter diagnosing the error with Windows, I am returned with 'The device or resource is not set up to accept connections on port 'The File and printer sharing (SMB)' which is leading me to think that this may be a Windows issue or perhaps a firewall issue. It just returns the same error of 'Windows cannot access \Samba'. What's extremely strange is that even with 'Allow guest login' enabled I could not access the 'Samba' directory to see my hard drive: I'm not even prompted to enter my login credentials. I also tried a factory reset with minimal setup but that didn't solve things. The problem remains after enabling 'Allow guest login' as well as 'Simpler share naming', 'force as Master Browser', and 'Set as WINS server'.

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