TomatoUSB

Hello folks,

I have just received and setup a FlashRouters tomatousb-flashed Asus RT-N66U router, and so far am very happy with the performance.

A couple hours ago, I attached a 1TB external Seagate drive to it, which shows up as mounted to /tmp/mnt/Seagate_Expansion_Drive. I have no idea how to proceed from here - the drive is not visible in my network places or anywhere in explorer for that matter.

I found only (can't post links as new user) the [thissite'surl]/tut:how-to-set-up-nas-optware-etc-for-total-noobs#2 on this site - but I refuse to believe that mounting a simple hard drive should require following over 100 instructions and going through Linux.

Could anyone please clarify whether I do indeed need to become a linux geek just to mount this drive as network attached, or if there is an easier way? Don't get me wrong, I am not a noob to computers - I but I do only have programming and limited networking experience, no linux/hardcore experience.

Please shine some light on it - my entire sunday is gone just trying to connect a bloody drive, and I'm starting to curse myself for going with a Tomato router vs. Asus' stock firmware - which seems to be a 5 click solution to drive mounting.

Thank you in advance for your help!
-Ian

I am not sure about TomatoUSB, but on Shibby Tomato samba is pretty simple…

Click on "USB and NAS"
then click on "File Sharing"

Next to enable fire sharing choose either "Yes, Authentication required" or "Yes, no Authentication"

If you choose authentication enter the username and password you want to use

enter the workgroup name for your lan.

You can then select read read/write etc for "All" partitions, or select individual below that.

I cant post a link of course (they are really making it hard to help around here aren't they) but here is a screen shot (change slash into a real / )

i.imgur.com slash uHWbB5Y.png