If you enable telnet on your Orbi from the debug page (the exact instructions are beyond the scope of this reply) and start a shell on your Orbi (explaining what exactly this means is beyond the scope of this reply), you can see that the USB ports are enabled. My natural suspicion tends to make me think that someone was talking out their butts when they wrote that it 'just worked'.
#NETGEAR READYSHARE USB DRIVE FORMAT SOFTWARE#
It would be odd if the software infrastructure were to be intact, while the web GUI has no way to configure the network share (e.g. One of the claims was with older firmware that I have now ( V2.1.2.18 ) I don't know if the required software functions have since been disabled by removing them from the firmware. I'm not sure what to make of the claims in the netgear forums. Looking at the links you provided, my impression of the link is that it was written by a bot. So this looks like something cribbed from another NetGear router, the EX6200v2. Socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY If you use the unix utility 'strings' to look for ASCII strings in the update_smb program, you see the format for a default Samba smb.conf configuration file: netbios name = %s
What seems to have happened is that some of the required unix utilities have been removed by NetGear, effectively disabling the software that would set the drive up to be shared. I can also manually configure the network disk sharing utility, Samba (abbreviated smb) to share the disk drive on the network. Ergo: the usb ports work and the software to read and write from a usb hard drive is installed corredtly. I can plug in and read the contents of a usb hard drive from the unix shell prompt just fine. usr/sbin/update_smb fails because the unix utility 'parted' isn't present. usr/sbin/detectSATA fails because the unix utility 'hdparm' isn't present. Among the things is does, it calls /usr/sbin/detectSATA and /usr/sbin/update_smb. The file /sbin/hotplug2.mount is called when a usb drive is plugged in. I've been poking around in the Orbi software ( V2.2.1.210 ) for a couple of days now. Since it was never officially supported, it is not the most stable option over a standard Ethernet NAS wired to a satellite or the router. That said, there is mixed support with the latest version of firmware. I have a usb2 drive plugged in and it works, fat32, 2 TB. I have a 500 Gb WD Scorpio Blue HDD in a 2.5in enclosure plugged in to my Orbi RBR50 router. I can confirm that with the latest firmware, the USB port does indeed support a haerd drive. More discussion in various threads in the Netgear Forum like here: There are some limitations currently such as format type and which drives are supported, but if that is not a deal breaker it may give you what you're looking for. I'm not sure why other posters are suggesting the USB port is not operational, they are fully functioning and officially supported for attaching a printer for Ready Share network printing.Ī USB drive, while not officially supported, also has found success with the Orbi:
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