WRT350N Storage Link Disk size

Anyone know why my 250GB external HD, which has been formatted via both windows and the router, only shows 111.9 GB is available when connected to the router? When I unplug it from the router and connect it to my laptop, it shows the whole disk is available.
Thanks in advance!!

I finally got it to read the whole drive last night, however, no matter what shares I have set up, I can only read the disk, and not wirte to it. I have the admin and guest share set to r/w but it still will not let me write! I love the router, but have never been able to get the storage link to work, and am becoming growingly frusterated.

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What Everyone Should KNow and Linksys Should Advertize About WRT350N Storage Link Limitations

I have spent hours with Linksys online chat trying to get my wrt350N storage link to work as advertised. Basically, I want to hook up a 400gb mybook hard drive and use the networked drive to backup my netwroked computers over the wireless network. While I can write individual files to the networked hard drive, and can copy and paste large folders using windows explorer, I can not use backup programs. The netowrked drive reports incorrect information as to its capicity to "my computer" and always shows up as "read only" while some programs don't seem to mind this, every backup program I have used has problems with this clitch.
After several sessions with linksys and having retuend the router to linksys for a new one, this is what technical support said this morning:
"You: ok so if I have you right, the router's storage link is not guaranteed to work at all with >300gb storage devices, does not work at all with 3rd party backup programs, and does not provide a backup program of its own, is that the bottom line?
Tech Support: Exactly. That's its product limitation."
Just so everyone is clear, Linksys does not gauruntee that storage link works at all with drives greater than 300gb, it is not compatable with 3rd part backup progrmas and does not provide a backup program of its own.
This is independant of ntfs vs fat32 and yes I do have the new firmware 1.03.2 and have it correctly installed (linksys checked all of my settings online).
If I am missing something and there are others out there who are gettnig storage link to work with backup software, I would love to know what I am doing wrong, because 7 different linksys tecnical support people have been unable to tell me.
Since Linksys is unwilling to place these product limitations on their packaging, I thought that potential users deserve to know the limitations of this product.
(Mod note: Post has been edited for guidelines compliance.)Message Edited by primus on 03-04-2007 08:43 PM

sounds like you are in the same boat I was. I bought the WRT350N to use with my macbook pro and attached a 500gig usb drive to it for remote storage. I got nothing but permission problems copying files. The save usb drive worked fine in a dlink storage box. I took mine back and ordered the
Airport Extreme-N
- James

WRT350n storage link itunes problem

There is not enough room on "\\Linksyswrt350n\all_partitions" to copy all of the requested files. iTunes will copy as many files as possible. I know for a fact that I have plenty of room on the drive. It seems itunes is having trouble getting access to the drive... not sure how to fix this

I just bought the wrt350n. have not hooked it up yet. I plan on putting a mybook 750gb drive on the storage link and putting my itunes library on it. how difficult is this?

WRT350N Storage Link usage?

Just bought the router and set it up. Works fine for what I had replaced before (G speed). Now I tried to enable the Storage Link. Put a 2GB Flash drive in the unit. It is on, and on the webpage I can see it. However, I can't see it via the LAN? I have Network Magic to 'manage' my network, and it can't see it? However, a NEW VIEW from my computer reports this... ____________ c:\>net view Server Name Remark ---------------------------------------- \\IRVS Gen5 \\LARAINE-HP \\LINKSYSWRT350N LinksysWRT350N The command completed successfully. ------------ The last UNC is the flash drive. Trying to view it reports this : c:\>net view \\LINKSYSWRT350N System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. I've tried ALL sorts of permissions and group creations. Still noting will allow me to look at it. Network Magic doesn't even see the device as a SHARE? Suggestions?
Thanks,
Irv S.

Yes, figured that out. The reason it didn't work before was that I had the Router settings open in the Web Browser and any other attempts to reach 192.168.1.1 didn't ask for a UID and P/W, just opened the main router page. Working now though. Thanks, Irv S.
Thanks,
Irv S.

WRT350n Storage Link; How Do I Access my Hard Disk Connected to the Router?

Hello.
I would like to know how do I access the external hard drive that is connected to the WRT350n router? I am connected via USB and I am on a mac? Do I go into; GO - CONNECT TO SERVER - IP ADDRESS?
Please let me know.
Thanks.

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Wrt350n storage link

I want to be able to access my 120g hard drive that is plugged into my wrt350n via the usb port. I want to access it from remote pc's and give others access to these files
I cant find the directions, and the guy at linksys discouraged me after the sales guy at a comp store told me how he is doing it at home and it works great!
any instructions or leads on where the instructions are would be appreciated!
JB
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Message Edited by on 07-28-2007 06:13 PM

not quite sure whether there is any white paper on it or not...however , in order to achieve what you are trying to do .. you need to connect the formatted drive to the router's usb port and access the router using http://192.168.1.1 ... login to the router's web ui and access the drive and create shares in it ..
in order to access the usb drive from the computer , go to start >> run >>\\router'sipadd >>click OK
after the drive is found , right click on it and click Map Network Drive .. this will help you see the drive under My Computer ..

Configuring storage link for wrt350n

How do you configure the storage link on a wrt350n? I have been trying to no success. Currently I have a flash 1gb drive attached. Once I figure out how to config it I will attach a 500gb hard drive. If anyone knows of a link to this process or would like to tell me how please do. Thanks

Once you connect your Storage Drive to your router, you need to login to the Router setup page and click on "Storage" tab,The Disk screen describes the disk currently attached to the Router. Once you are able to see your Storage disk, Size, Then you need to click on Create Share,Under create share you need to give a Shared Name and Select the Partition and click on Create Share. Next step you need to click on "Share" tab and click on "Modify" and you can set the Permissiong for your Users.Once you are done with all this settings.
Go to your computer on which you need to Add that Storage device... Click on Start - Run - and type \\192.168.1.1 and hit enter, and it will prompt you for the Username & Password, Type "admin" as Username and "admin" as Password and once you click Ok, it will display you your storage Partition, Right click on it and select "MAP Network Drive" and check Box "Reconnect at Logon" and click on Finish.
Open your My Computer icon and in that you will be able to see your Storage Drive. Try this i think it might solve the problem.

WRT350N - Transfer speed via Storage link

I have always been curious what the transfer speed others get while using
a USB 2.0 hard drives on their WRT350N.
Obviously there is going to be a drop in transfer speed using storage link but 2-3 Megabyte seems slower then I would expect. I don't thnk I have ever seen much about 3MB.
I see the same performance wirelessly (connected at 270mb) and hardwired into the gig ethernet port.
Just wanted to get some other peoples results.
Message Edited by GAH1068 on 01-17-2008 02:04 PM

It was on both systems. However, I did get it working. Not the way I liked, but it works. What I expected to see was the device hung off the network. That is like another computer. This *is* happening, but where I was confused was the access to it. On other shared resources I can open it at will with no special access rights needed. I'm talking about printers and files on other computers on the network. It turned out to access the Storage Link I had to actually provide a USER ID and PASSWORD before I could use it. Why I couldn't get access before was I had HTTP:\\192.168.1.1 already open in my browser so any other attempts via the web browser used the existing connection. Not until I saw a forum message that said use START=>RUN and enter the IP address or UNC name was I able to connect to it. Since I now know this, a simple bat file with some NET USE's should fix the problem of getting access. Compounding my problem is how I've chosen to manage the network and shares. I use Network Magic, and it can NOT see the Storage Link at all. Anyway, I now know how to access the Storage Link. I was using a Flash drive for testing. I'll next put a USB External drive on and try that out. My ultimate try will be a USB hub and 4 external drives and hopefully I'll have access to all 4 drives to all computers. Irv S.
Thanks,
Irv S.

How to access "storage link" on WRT350N router

I recently purchased a WRT350N wireless router with storage link. One of the main reasons I picked this router was because the salesman told me I could hook up any external hard drive to the router and have the drive accessible on my home network.
I have plugged the external drive into the USB on the back of the router, but I can’t find anyway to access the drive. I have looked through the user’s guide and it didn’t help. I was hoping maybe someone out there could explain this to me.
Thanks in advance!

hi... if you are using win XP system try following steps... click on start >> run >> \\IP address of the router for e.g. 192.168.1.1 (default IP) it would ask for username and password put "admin" router's default password...one window pops up for flash drive...right click on it and map a network drive...let me know if you have any issues..

WRT600N Storage Link Problems

I'm just adding to the litany of woes regarding the problems with the Storage Link feature on this router, but I wanted to point out some specifics based on my sorry experience, since others seem to be somewhat different or lacking in detail. Here is my summary:
Router firmware version 1.0.36 Build 4 (one release up from what is currently on Linksys' web site)
Connected Western Digital My Book 750GB USB 2.0 external drive, first formatted via computer to NTFS, and then plugged in to the router's USB port..
Got everything set up properly including shared folders on external drive, user access, permissions, etc, and mapped network drives on laptop (Vista Home Premium) and desktop (XP Home) computers, so far so good.
Attempted (twice) a drive image backup of laptop using StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop 3.2 (latest release). Backup completed (44GB), and I could see the file on the external network drive, but file was corrupt and failed verification.
After much research, decided to re-format the external network drive using the router's formatting capability. Discovered that router will only format using FAT32, but proceeded anyhow, and again successfully set up shared folders, user access, permissions, etc.
Since FAT32 will not address files larger than 4 GB, decided to abandon a drive image backup, so tried a files-and-folders backup from the laptop using Genie Backup Manager Home 8.0. This was successful as long as I didn't try to back up so many files and folders that the resulting file was larger than 4GB.
Also copied individual files and folders over to external drive with no problem, but had to exclude a video file that was slightly larger than 4 GB.
Re-formatted the external network drive to NTFS again using the computer, and tried another files-and-folders backup from the laptop using Genie, this time purposely selecting enough files to push the backup file size over 4 GB. This should have worked since the drive was formatted to NTFS, but the backup failed twice.
Conclusion: Storage Link implementation only allows basic capability to move files and folders less than 4 GB in size due to it's FAT32 format limitation, and is totally unsuitable for using automated backup software to backup large numbers of files or do drive imaging to the network drive. So if all you want to do is move files manually to the network drive, and don't have any huge files larger than 4 GB, and don't care about automated backups, then Storage Link seems to work OK. However, IMHO, this is WAY too limiting, and does not even come close to a NAS solution. I'm returning my router today, because it is hard to tell when a firmware upgrade might be released that would remove these serious limitations.
Sorry if this it really long, but I felt the details are important if anyone from Linksys is reading this.

Hi All I have just seen exactly the same issue with some files I use which are 4.7GB. If I try and move the files from the computer to the storage which connected to the router I get a message that I dont have enough space. I get the same error if I put the files on via the computer and then connect the storage back to the router and try and access them. In this day and age over 4GB is not a massive file and this is a bit of a poor show :-( Cheers Phil

Icloud manage storage link not working on my iphone 4s

I need to manage my icloud storage, but the manage storage link on my iphone is not working. When I click on it, nothing happens. Can anyone help with this problem? I don't want to buy more storage if I can turn off some of my apps in icloud. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks!

Had the same problem recently (on an iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1). The phone couldn't back up to iCloud as the storage limit had been exceeded, and tapping "Manage Storage" in the iCloud settings didn't work: it just briefly showed a spinning wheel but I couldn't enter the Manage Storage screen. Looks like a bug.
In the end I was able to solve it via the iCloud settings on a laptop. Using this route, I removed the backup that was clogging the available 5GB free storage and was able to access Manage Storage again to tweak the settings. In my case this meant disabling iCloud backups of photos in the camera roll, which was the reason for the large size of the backup file in the first place.
Here's what I did:
1. Important step: first of all, make a backup of your phone in iTunes by connecting it to the computer and chosing the backup option in iTunes. You will delete the iCloud backup in step 3, so it's best to have another backup handy. It's not very likely your phone will crash in the short time it takes to complete these steps, but better safe than sorry.
2. After making the full phone backup, I downloaded all the photos from the camera roll onto my computer and deleted them from the phone. There are different ways of doing this, on a Mac you can for instance use Image Capture. This step is not really necessary to get the backups working again as you will probably disable camera roll backups in step 3 anyway, but it's good to get into the habit of backing up photos on the computer regularly, rather than in iCloud. If you want to keep some photos on the phone as well, you can always copy them back from the computer onto the phone.
3. Access iCloud storage management via the computer rather than the iPhone. Instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847 > Backup > Deleting backups and turning off Backup for your device > Mac OS X (or Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista). If you use a Windows computer and the iCloud control panel hasn't been installed yet, you can find it here http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html.
I don't think you can delete specific elements like the camera roll from the backup this way, you have to delete the whole thing. But you made another backup in step 1 so this isn't really a problem.
4. On the iPhone, try to access Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage again - it should work now. In the next screen, choose your iPhone and you will get the Backup Options where you can switch backups on and off for different apps. It shows you how much storage each app takes, you will probably see that the Camera Roll is the largest so you may want to switch that off. Once you're happy with the settings, go back two screens to Storage & Backup and switch Icloud Backup back on (it was automatically switched off in step 3), and if you are on Wi-Fi, tap Back Up Now so it makes a new iCloud backup right away.
That's all, hope it solves your problem.

How to create a mp3 playlist compatable with the media server (storage link)

Hi,
I have setup the wrt160nl wireless router with the latest Firmware Version: 1.00.01 B17.
Everything is working great. I can browse the artists, albums, song titles etc from my usb hard disk.
What isn't working is the play lists.
What format does the play list need to be in?
I assume a text file with the tracks listed like: \music\acdc\back in black.mp3
What file extention or name will the playlist need to be in?
My pnp player only sees two playlists:
1) playlistlastplayed
2) playlistmostplayed
If I knew where those play lists were stored on the usb hard drive (or linksys internal ram?) then I might have a clue.....
Thanks for any help on this.

Playlistlastplayed has every track on the hard disk - and I haven't played them all, only like 3
Playlistmostplayed has ONLY 1 track that I haven't played from the linksys upnp server at all
I can play music off the album, artist and song lists fine.
I'd just like to be able to use a play list, and can't seem to find out how to make one.
I realize and understand that the linksys storage link system doesn't create them.
I assume I can make my own text file with track listings and copy the play list to the usb hard drive attached.
I just need to know the format of the text file, and what extention will it need.
I have tried .m3u .m3u8 .wpl
I don't have iTunes but if you told me I have to download that, import my music into that, then create the playlist there, well, I guess I could try that. I rather not load iTunes if possible.
Thanks

Hi, how do I manage storage? Disk Utility says "other" is taking up most of my storage but I don't know where to find "other". Please help!

Hi, how do I manage storage? Disk Utility says “other” is taking up most of my storage but I don’t know where to find “other". Please help!

For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation—not the mythical 10%, 15%, or any other percentage. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you're running an older OS version, use GP.
Deleting files inside a photo or iTunes library will corrupt the library. Changes to such a library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS or GP can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
Install the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper 2>&-
sudo /Applications/GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective 2>&-
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Ignore any other messages that appear in the Terminal window.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

About This Mac Storage shows wrong size

Hello, the story so far
Actions:
- MBA early 2014 (128GB) maverick updated to yosemite in November 2014
- fresh install of Yosemite via wifi in January 2015 - followed instructions as suggested here http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14243
Consequences after fresh installation:
- About This Mac > Storage shows total hard disk size 120GB, About This Mac > Storage shows 110GB
- About This Mac > Storage shows approx 9GB of apps. The actual applications folder size is far, far, far less than 9GB as showed in Terminal.
- About This Mac > Storage shows approx 1GB of data for videos, audio and photos. There are no photos, video, documents stored on MBA.
For the records, no device data was sync after fresh installation and the trash is being emptied securely.
I am new to MAC so I would be grateful if you could help me understanding why About This Mac > Storage is showing more data stored than Terminal and Finder and what I should do to rectify the discrepancy.
Many thanks of your understanding and support.
Cheers, puzzled_me

Kappy, may thanks. No difference, Get Info for the folders returns same data size as About This Mac > Storage
On a different note I have noticed that there are two Library folders under harddrive. See screenshot attached.
System/Library (6.8GB) folder contains subfolders that are also contained under Library (2.7GB) folder.
Could that be the problem?? Is that normal to have two Library folders??
Thank you for your help.

WRT600N Storage Link FTP Server problems

I have the WRT600N wireless router which has a Storage Link capable of being turned into an FTP Server. I have set up the FTP server, and I can see folders, but not files within the folders. I have it set up to display the /public/FTP_Server folder as the FTP server, I have a Jpeg file in the folder, but I cannot see it in the FireFox FTP browser. When I type /hello.jpg at the end of the address line, it says "No such file" or something like that. How do I access my files on the server? My server is ftp://the-sir-lar-network.ath.cx and the file is in that folder and it's called "hello.jpg". EDIT: Log in with username: guest password:"" (no password)
Message Edited by zachlr on 08-31-2008 07:59 PM

zachlr wrote:
I have the WRT600N wireless router which has a Storage Link capable of being turned into an FTP Server. I have set up the FTP server, and I can see folders, but not files within the folders. I have it set up to display the /public/FTP_Server folder as the FTP server, I have a Jpeg file in the folder, but I cannot see it in the FireFox FTP browser. When I type /hello.jpg at the end of the address line, it says "No such file" or something like that. How do I access my files on the server? My server is ftp://the-sir-lar-network.ath.cx and the file is in that folder and it's called "hello.jpg". EDIT: Log in with username: guest password:"" (no password)
Message Edited by zachlr on 08-31-2008 07:59 PM
Hi
Check ur firewall ,if its not blocking u to access ur server files.
secondly ,
try putting and accessing some more files.
else ,
Format the Disk , and try again.
see what happens??
pe@c3
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