Comments on: Setting Up A Low Cost NAS Using Tomato

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:44:20 +0000

I was having a problem accessing the mounted drive. But I went into the router and found my username and password and that worked. Thanks for your help.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:44:49 +0000

Are you having trouble accessing the router after flashing to tomato? Seems like Matts post was an issue with accessing the mounted drive. If it is the router, the default is user: admin pass: admin. If it is the drive you are trying to connect to try this
\\Default\nas media\Mount Name\Partition Name

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:25:42 +0000

I have the same question as Matt about the username and password for the router on telnet. Can anyone help with this?

By: Ferdie

Ferdie — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:13:14 +0000

I am using tomato 1.27

My FAT formatted flash drive can’t be mounted.
Check the screenshot
http://img833.imageshack.us/i/failedmount.jpg/

Any advice how I can make it mounted?

TIA

By: GX

GX — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:19:15 +0000

UPDATE: I was able to write to flash drive by adding samba script to the “Samba custom configuration”. However, the webpage settings are still not working for me.

By: GX

GX — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:29:02 +0000

Hi, just got my asus wl-500g v2 and installed tomato following the guide. Thanks for the great tutorials. However, I got some problems with the file sharing. I was able to connect my 4G flash drive to the router and mount it as a network drive under windows xp. The problem is I can only map the share folder (which is /mnt by default). The system can not save the new share name and directory I added. After I click the save button, it says ‘settings saved, some services are restarted’. Then I refresh the page and everything is gone. I can read the files under windows but not write to the flash drive (fat32).

I have tried several different builds like 1.28.8748.ext, 1.28.8750.ext and tomato-K26USB-1.28.9050MIPSR1-beta20-Ext. All three have the same problem for me. I’ve spent several hours on this and still could not fix it. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks a lot!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:49:07 +0000

I’m trying to set up an external HD as a NAS, I have successfully mounted it but for some reason the password and user name is different for my router on telnet. It is a asus 520gu, any way I can find the user and pass? Thanks Matt

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:13:36 +0000

I setup my external hdd as a NAS via these instructions and works well. Is it possible to access my drive outside my network, say for example, from my work? Can anyone point me in the direction of instructions for how to do this?

By: Don

Don — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:45:35 +0000

The reason why you dont have file sharing is because you are using the lite version.
I have a WL-520GU and I use 2.4 Std for file sharing. It should fix your problem.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:09:22 +0000

I have my HD plug into usb, all works well, does any have
a script file to spin down the HD after not being use for
a while.