I haven't gone to work on the problem, yet, Spud, but I will probably jump on it tomorrow night. The main reason I have to do it now is a nasty little gotcha I just ran into with the WRT160NL. It's got this feature called "Storage Link" -- the box and the docs trumpet that there's a USB port on the back and the router will automatically recognize storage devices plugged into it and turn them into network storage/servers. So I said, cool, there's this Verbatim 500-gig USB drive on sale for $90 at the local BJ's. I run over there tonight, get the drive, get home, plug it in... and the router can't see it. No matter what I do, the router can't see it.
So I finally end up going through the help topics on the Linksys website. And lo and behold, it turns out that this storage link only supports 12 or 16 different devices -- not types of devices, devices -- from only 3 or 4 manufacturers. Naturally, this is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation that comes with the router. And naturally, Verbatim is not one of those manufacturers, and by obvious extension, our nice new half-terabyte drive isn't one of those devices.
So in order to have a central file server for our network -- unless I want to try to return the open package to BJ's and try to explain to the minimum-wage clerk why I'm doing so -- I need to set it up on the desktop and share it out.
If I don't come across as being growling mad about this, it's only because I've got half a pint of my latest homebrew in me and my alcohol tolerance is low enough that it's actually mildly sedating me.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
So I finally end up going through the help topics on the Linksys website. And lo and behold, it turns out that this storage link only supports 12 or 16 different devices -- not types of devices, devices -- from only 3 or 4 manufacturers. Naturally, this is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation that comes with the router. And naturally, Verbatim is not one of those manufacturers, and by obvious extension, our nice new half-terabyte drive isn't one of those devices.
So in order to have a central file server for our network -- unless I want to try to return the open package to BJ's and try to explain to the minimum-wage clerk why I'm doing so -- I need to set it up on the desktop and share it out.
If I don't come across as being growling mad about this, it's only because I've got half a pint of my latest homebrew in me and my alcohol tolerance is low enough that it's actually mildly sedating me.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.