Problem connecting with USB Hard drive on Router since upgrade to Lion

Over the past year we have been slowly getting set up to have a hard drive with our photos networked so we can access from all home computers. We have a CineRAID hard drive storage tower w/one 2TB Seagate HD (allows for 4 hard drives). We have collected pictures from all computers onto the hard drive. Up until recently, we have had the system connected directly to one computer to allow transfer of files more easily. When I recently attached it back to the Netgear WNDR3700v2 router, I can see the drive (called ReadyShare, instead of the drive name "Photos & Videos") in the Finder, but I cannot access the drive; says "Connection Failed" and clicking brings up the box to connect as if to another computer.
I had set this up when we first got the hard drive in January and everything worked fine, i.e., I could see and access the pictures that had been transferred to the drive, without having to logon to the hard drive. The only thing that I know has changed is migrating my computer from Snow Leopard to Lion. Is there some new protocol for accessing this type system, or have I inadvertently switched/changed something else, that I no longer remember?

Over the past year we have been slowly getting set up to have a hard drive with our photos networked so we can access from all home computers. We have a CineRAID hard drive storage tower w/one 2TB Seagate HD (allows for 4 hard drives). We have collected pictures from all computers onto the hard drive. Up until recently, we have had the system connected directly to one computer to allow transfer of files more easily. When I recently attached it back to the Netgear WNDR3700v2 router, I can see the drive (called ReadyShare, instead of the drive name "Photos & Videos") in the Finder, but I cannot access the drive; says "Connection Failed" and clicking brings up the box to connect as if to another computer.
I had set this up when we first got the hard drive in January and everything worked fine, i.e., I could see and access the pictures that had been transferred to the drive, without having to logon to the hard drive. The only thing that I know has changed is migrating my computer from Snow Leopard to Lion. Is there some new protocol for accessing this type system, or have I inadvertently switched/changed something else, that I no longer remember?

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