Archer C3200 Problems

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Archer C3200 Problems
Archer C3200 Problems
2018-03-16 01:20:15
Model : Archer C3200

Hardware Version : 1

Firmware Version : latest

ISP :

1. I need the share to NOT had the device name (sdax1). - it looses or disconnects the external HDD at least once per day and it will kill my mounts on my windows machine. Or at least allow us to use SSH and reconfigure SMB sharing ...

2. Sharing keeps breaking (and i cannot even access it over SMB) - when that happens i need to reboot the router.

3. Sometime wireless becomes useless and i have to reboot the router to make it work.
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Re:Archer C3200 Problems
2018-03-16 11:51:54
the format of your HDD is one of these: ntfs/fat32/exfat/hfs+?
does it have external power supply? if not, make sure power required is not over
500mA for USB 2.0 port.
may be a compatibility issue, contact tplink support to verify.
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Re:Archer C3200 Problems
2018-03-18 01:48:52
Yes, it is NTFS. And yes has external power.

The issue is that the HDD goes into sleep mode after 30 mins of idle and when it comes up again is seen as a new hdd by the router OS. So it changes it's letter - switches between sda1 and sdb1. And for some strange, stupid reason the share includes the drive name so the share name changes aswell. Which is very annoying.

For now i disabled the sleep mode and apparently it fixes the problem BUT it means that the hdd will be running 100% of the time. Not sure i want that. Any solution to NOT have the drive name IN the share name?
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Re:Archer C3200 Problems
2018-03-19 19:35:51
i don't know what names you are talking. But i know we change the network/media server name in the web interface. And it looks that we are not able to change drive name as there is no place saying that in the web page.
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Re:Archer C3200 Problems
2018-03-20 10:26:26

Shield101 wrote

i don't know what names you are talking. But i know we change the network/media server name in the web interface. And it looks that we are not able to change drive name as there is no place saying that in the web page.


I'm talking about the name of the share. Check the print screen, you will see an sda1 in the name. And that's exactly what i want: to change the name of the share so it doesn't include sdx1.



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Re:Archer C3200 Problems
2018-03-20 14:22:13
i don't know how to change it.
you may contact tp-link support for help.
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