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Belkin Storage Manager working with Leopard??

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Wongiranger

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As the (relatively 😕) proud owner of a new Belkin N+ Wireless Modem Router (model number F5D8635-4 v1), I was looking forward to sharing a hard drive (WD 1600 BO14) across my wireless network, plugged into the USB port on the router. I installed the Belkin Storage Manager software for OS X, yet infrequently am able to access the hard drive from my MacBook.

I frequently get a message that the disk "failed to mount". Occasionally it pops up as a shared drive on Finder and works OK, albeit slowly.

No problems accessing it with the networked PCs 😡

The drive also works ok when plugged directly into the MacBook

Belkin support unable to resolve...can anyone out there help??
 
Same here. At one point I got a message stating something about the drive existing locally, and I had to access it as such. Now it just tells me the drive failed to mount after a firmware upgrade to v2.01.06.

Did you have any luck with your situation, Wongiranger?

Edit: Apparently it JUST started working by simply going through finder and clicking on my router. See attached screen.
 

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The mystery deepens! From PeggedLegs' screenshot it seems that the device shows up under "Shared" in Finder. No such luck in my case....except - when I need to add a file as an attachment to an email, or import / export a file in another application (eg. iPhoto). Then my shared devices - including the storage drive attached to the Belkin Router, show up in the "Choose Attachment" screen, and I have no problem accessing them.

Any ideas why the shared devices don't show in Finder but do when accessed through other applications? File Sharing in System Preferences is enabled....
 
I may have the solution

I bought the same modem/router today and had the same issue with my Mac. Via the assistance of Apple Care I found out that you need to set up the Router as a server in order for it to be visible as a shared drive. To do this:

1. Go to Finder
2. Click on 'Go' t the top of the page
3. Click on 'Connect to Server'
4. Type smb://192.168.2.1 and click on Connect
You will need to type in the password you set up for the router, and that should be it 🙂
 
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