Yeah, that's not going to happen.
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Ok... well, I have provided you the best information we have:
I prefer using Windows or flash it by its web GUI
In that case, enjoy Openwrt.
Sadly, your preferred methods are not viable options.
You are left with four real options:
- try the method I have suggested to restore the vendor firmware to your device (this is the most likely option to work)
- do your own research for how you might restore the vendor firmware using Windows (this is off-topic for these forums; you need to do this yourself and there may or may nay not be a solution that works on Windows)
- Use OpenWrt as your NAS OS.
- Give up on this device. You could buy a new NAS and use it with the vendor's OS out of the box.
I can't get openwrt to see my drives
Did you install the necessary file system support?
this is the image that I used openwrt-18.06.9-ixp4xx-generic-nslu2-squashfs
Just to be clear, this has been EOL and unsupported for over half a decade. You're largely on your own for installing the relevant packages (because most people here won't have running installations that old to check/test, things have changed dramatically since then, and it's also very much out of the support horizon)
However, the gist of what you want to do is install the SAMBA server (I think samba3 is available on 18.06) and the kmod-fs-ntfs (or similar) kernel module for your drives to be recognized.
well I don't see kmod-fs-ntfs in the software list, what about unslung
did you update the package list? did you search for ntfs?
I tried but nothing happened and I search for it and came up nothing
do this via ssh and provide the output here:
opkg update
opkg lst | grep ntfs
how to ssh it, is there other devices like this one that does the same thing or one that can direct attach storage
Follow the directions I provided earlier... including the link in here:
Yes. Look on the internet and/or your favoriate retailer for "DAS" or "Direct attach storage" or simply an USB hard drive enclosure.
I already have my HDD in a enclosure just need a device that can connect them by USB but I want them on my network but not on the internet and can use software to mount the drives on multiple PC
I tried putty but it has issue connecting to it?
It is really not clear what you are asking...
this (when reading the words literally) suggests a USB connection to your computer. In other words, DAS.
and this would be consistent with that, assuming that you have an enclosure that has a USB port and connects to your computer.
This is a different type of device -- a NAS. It is consistent with the physical device you have described (the NSLU2) -- in this case, your USB connected drives connect to the NSLU2 and that makes the whole system a NAS.
I'm not sure how many of these type products are still made (i.e. just a NAS with no internal disks, just USB por(s) for connecting hard drives and making those available on the network), but they did (and may still) exist as a product category. Do your research and you'll hopefully find something that fits your needs.
This isn't very helpful as you don't provide any specifics about the issue.
I used putty by its ip address but it couldn't connect to it
What IP did you use? What username? what password? what port? what protocol?
What errors did it show?