Anybody know anything about N.A.S. severs?

kingaaa

I have a 4 bay Verbatim Powerbay a couple of weeks now and its working great - very user friendly, all except for one thing. It has an E.S.A.T.A and USB port for external drives to add additional storage. I've attached drives to both of these ports and while they show up fine on the network and in the browser settings of the Powerbay, I cant copy anything to these drives - keep getting a warning saying I dont have permission to carry out the action. So I went into the properties of the share-name of the drives to change permissions and I'm not allowed to do that either!! Any ideas?

Sounds like a conflict with filing system? What I mean is if you use an apple and your usb drives are NTFS you can read but not write or edit...

check the filing system of your drive and what OS are you using?

kingaaa

niallerrity wrote: »

Sounds like a conflict with filing system? What I mean is if you use an apple and your usb drives are NTFS you can read but not write or edit...

check the filing system of your drive and what OS are you using?

I have windows 7 64bit. I think it might be that I have to use the web-interface for transferring files - but cant seem to find one on the verbatims interface?

platinums

kingaaa wrote: »

I have a 4 bay Verbatim Powerbay ... Any ideas?

Just quickly read through the Manual, noticed this
"additional storage as a shared volume on the LAN (default name “eSATA_1”"

Are you accessing the External Drive through this share?
e.g. \\"Nas IP or Name"\eSATA-1\

Als you must plug in the eSATA connection after the unit is powered up to access it as a share, if its powered on before the NAS is it will be recognised as a Mirror Device, not a share.

Go to the Shared Folders Settings page, edit teh Shared folder called eSATA_1 (or whatever you changed it to) and Click the Checkbox for "Allow everybody read/write access"

I have a ReadyNas (Netgear) had a lot of permissions problems at first, but once I understood how it work i got the hang of it.

HTH

kingaaa

platinums wrote: »

Just quickly read through the Manual, noticed this
"additional storage as a shared volume on the LAN (default name “eSATA_1”"

Are you accessing the External Drive through this share?
e.g. \\"Nas IP or Name"\eSATA-1\

Als you must plug in the eSATA connection after the unit is powered up to access it as a share, if its powered on before the NAS is it will be recognised as a Mirror Device, not a share.

Go to the Shared Folders Settings page, edit teh Shared folder called eSATA_1 (or whatever you changed it to) and Click the Checkbox for "Allow everybody read/write access"

I have a ReadyNas (Netgear) had a lot of permissions problems at first, but once I understood how it work i got the hang of it.

HTH

Just got a reply from verbatim customer support - seemingly the attached external drives must be formatted to fat32 for read/write capabilities, bit of a pain as I wanted to store HD movies on both drives, all of wich are too big for fat32!

yoyo

Looking here it would seem to support Ext2/3 FS alright so could you format the drives to Ext3 and then use Ext2Fsd to mount the Ext3 partition in Windows. I have no expierience with this tool but it claims to support Read & Write to the Ext3 FS which should work fine

Nick

kingaaa

yoyo wrote: »

Looking here it would seem to support Ext2/3 FS alright so could you format the drives to Ext3 and then use Ext2Fsd to mount the Ext3 partition in Windows. I have no expierience with this tool but it claims to support Read & Write to the Ext3 FS which should work fine

Nick

I think ext.2/3 is just for the internal drives yoyo, the usb/sata drives are fat32