[Discuss] Netgear ReadyShare

[Jerry Feldman]

If I had to moderate all posts, I would be busy all day :-)
On Linux, the buffers are flushed periodically, and if you unmount, the
buffers are flushed immediately if any are still busy. I'm not sure how
windows handles flash drives, but it always warns you to press safely
remove. I'm thinking that this is a similar case.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:31 PM Jerry Natowitz <j.natowitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jerry,
>
> Thanks.  I always thought that there was a moderator who had to approve
> the posting.
>
> I don't think it is a timing issue, the flash stick remains in the
> router.  There is one other point that I forgot to mention. In order to
> mount the share on Linux, I need the following mount command:
>
> mount -t cifs -o sec=ntlm,vers=1.0,password=P1stach10
> //router/USB_Storage /dosd
>
> Is the fact that it is using V1 of NTLM the problem?  I though that was
> only a security layer.
>
> I guess I'm asking if this is a known problem, and that either a new
> router, or using dd-wrt might fix it.
>
>         Jerry Natowitz
> ===>    j.natowitz (at) gmail.com
>
> On 2020-06-04 12:14, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Jerry,
> > First, we have seen this post. Sometimes you won't see your own posts. Go
> > to the archives http://blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2020-June/thread.html
> >
> > So as I understand it you are writing to a flash drive connected to the
> > router. Could it be that the flash drive was removed before the file was
> > fully written. Should not matter if the flash drive is FAT32 or NTFS.
> Could
> > be simply a timing issue.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 11:56 AM Jerry Natowitz <j.natowitz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I've submitted this twice without seeing it posted.  Perhaps I should
> >> have been more specific, the Netgear V6300V2 router is Linux based, so
> >> this is a Linux compatibility issue.
> >>
> >>
> >> I have a Netgear V6300V2 router that I am trying to use a small file
> >> server in addition to as Wifi router.  The problem is that when I am on
> >> Windows 10 (unfortunately) and I edit a particular Excel file (.xlsx),
> >> the file gets corrupted.  I don't have the same problem with that file
> >> on a local drive, or editing it with LibreOffice on Linux.  After
> >> getting the corruption, I can copy a fresh file over from Windows and
> >> once again, Linux is okay, Windows corrupts.  After that, the next fresh
> >> copy is corrupt on arrival.
> >>
> >>
> >> I've seen this with several different flash drives, all formatted
> >> FAT32.  ExFAT isn't supported, and I haven't tried NTFS yet.  I could
> >> also try EXT4.  Any ideas on why this is happening?
> >>
> >> --
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