I’ve recently bought MT300N with the intention of attaching an external hard drive via USB and using it to back up from my mac. I’m having a few problems with the process…
I’ve got the mini router attached to my main router via the WAN port and access and mount the drive from my main network. I can also see the drive contents in the GLI interface. I’m on OSX Sierra and the Drive is formatted in EXFAT. However, when I try to copy to it, I have to enter my Mac’s password (I’ve tried the router’s user name and password and this doesn’t work). and when I do I’m told : “<span style=“color: #242729; font-family: Arial, ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fafafa;”>The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.</span>”
I’ve done a bit of googling and it looks like its something to do with ‘smbpassword’ and I have to somehow put my osx username and password onto the router for it to allow me access. Theres no obvious way of doing this through the luci interface though. I’m guessing I’ll have to use the command line? I’m a bit clueless about how to even access the router that way.
Any help anyone could give would be really appreciated. Since the router has ‘usb storage’ listed as one of the features, it feels like it shoudl be easier than this. Thanks.