WRT610N vs Share Mapping Wirelessly

WOW. Never thought itwould come to this, but I am slowly realizing how aerodynamic the LinksysWRT610N is. I am also getting closer totesting its ability to fly.
I bought this router, after some careful deliberation. I stated that a USB hard drive could beplugged directly in making a storage device available via the router. Great I thought, “this means I can sharefiles on my network without having a computer constantly on.”
I purchased the WRT60N and a WD MyBook 1TB USB external harddrive. Got it home set it up and loggedin to the IP of the router. I did allthe usual security setups, and then proceeded to the storage tab. There was my hard drive…all of it. Problem was I could not access it to makeshare folders. I did some digging onthese forums, and on the Linksys KB, and discovered that the firmware doesn’tsupport anything over 750gb. I havefiles lager than 4gb that I want to put on here, so while I was at it I madethe drive NTFS.
I reconnected the drive to the router, and viola the abilityto make shares. This is where theproblem, and frustrations comes in. While I can create shares, and map them while connected through LAN, Ihave yet to map one share wirelessly. Ihave changed the Media Server name, enabled UPnP, changed the ftp server name,changed the workgroup name, forwarded ports from the router to my laptop,anything I could think of to find the **bleep** shares on my network.
I have tried the \\192.168.... Method that only brings me tothe router setup page (no help there).
I have tried \\servername (both media, and ftp) nothing
I have tried creating a workgroup on my laptop with thestock and the changed workgroup names…nothing
I have upgraded firmware, downgraded firmware, even loaded opensourcefirmware (dd-WRT).
I can’t seem to figure this out. While I was wired to the router I was able tomap the shares, but wirelessly…I should also point out that I am runningWindows XP Pro SP3, and am not a novice to this type of thing.
After this I am going to have to tackle the Twonky Media server issue.
-B
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Hey Avatar,
Thanks for resurrecting this for me...I had pretty much written it off...I spoke with at level 3 Tech support on the chat system. Basically we figured that there are two Versions for this Router. The Ver 1 uses similar chip/code architecture as the WRT600N. The 600n only supports up to 750G, and I've read elsewhere that it was a real pain in the...
http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=16543&p_created=1211...
I took it back to BB for an "exchange" and got the Ver. 2 (identifiable by the new packaging). Got home, set-up, works a charm now. I am currently downloading my Torrents to it directly...(edit 11/10: Having issue with MS SP3 and concurrent half-open outbound TCP connections)
Remember when you set-up you have to enable the media server, and create a share...I just share the whole drive. Hope this helps...

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