I'll run through the basics:
- Grab your Hard drive/USB stick and plug it it.
- Logon to the router's address in your browser 192.168.1.1
- Followed by your user and password. (Should click add to keychain to make life easier)
- Then hit the storage tab!
- Format your drive to the exact size of the drive. (I find partitions fiddly so I just leave it as one chunk, us Mac users are used to it.)
Example:
Once the drive has been picked up by the router, click the format button.
The router says the drive's size is 57,216 MB, so I copy that figure into partition 1 text box, tick the partition 1 box. The hit "apply".
This bit shouldn't take long.
Make a not of the name of the hard drive after the formatting, you'll need this later.
- At this point the router should of done most of the fiddly bits.
- Okay, under the storage tab there should be a administration bit, click that.
- Towards the button of the page should be a User Management Section.
- I'd suggest adding some users to the User List to make life easier when connecting. What I did was type in the user name of my mac's user account. I.e. "scruffydoo", so first and last name put together. Then add a different password than my computer for security reasons. (You can do this for every mac on your network.)
- Once you've done that hit the "create" button.
Okay router bit done. On to the Mac.
- In the finder, click the "go" drop down menu.
- Then select "Connect to server" or hit command-K
- Under "server addresses", type in "smb://192.168.1.1/". Then add the name of the hard drive that router gave it. You can find this on the storage tab under shared folder.
- So the resulting address would look something like this "smb://192.168.1.1/HDD_1_1/"
- Click the "+" to save for later, then hit "connect".
- The computer will then ask for a user and password.
- Just type in the user name that you added on the router, which should be the same as your user name on your mac. Makes life easier, hopefully.
- Type in the password you chose on the router. I.e. scruffydoo and the password would be dingleberries.
- All done, you have connected to the hard drive on your router.
Just remember that next time you want to connect, go to the "Go" drop down and select "Connect to server" and double click you book marked server address.
From here on out you can start adding bits to the address.
I never liked seeing the HDD_1_1 name in the finder so I added a folder to the drive, like "Storage" then in the "Connect to server" address bit typed in "smb://192.168.1.1/HDD_1_1/Storage"
Hope that helps!
