Connecting a removable hdd to Vodafone router

[scarb22]

So I’m trying to have a home cloud storage that’s accessible through my home broadband and can access files and save files to. Got a 4tb removable hdd sandisk plugged into the usb on my Vodafone router. Powers on and according to the Vodafone broadband network map it recognises there’s a hdd Attached but can’t find it on my laptop or any device. I’ve connected to the router and looked at the limited settings it’s says share is on. Really can’t figure out on the windows side of things what I need to do. Help??

[VFbroadbanduser]

You don't need to do any of that, you just need to turn SAMBA on in the router this is why you are not seeing any network shares for Windows on the router. On the THG3000 it's under Sharing, Share-Settings.

[Jayach]

I'm pretty sure that DLNA and SAMBA are turned on by default. 

[JoseAlmeida]

That doesn't work for me.

My router identidy there is an HDD drive, but when I click to show the path to copy, is shows nothing.

But I replaced the 4TBHDD for a 32GB USB and it works.

It seems Vodafone Super Routers doesn't support external drives so big, maybe!!!

[Cynric]

@JoseAlmeida Are the two drives you tested formatted the same, e.g. NTFS?

[bighammo69]

did you ever find a fix for this?

[JoseAlmeida]

I have the same problem, did you find a solution?

[bain]

I had the same issue with shares not showing up using the Vodafone Power Hub. The problem turned out to be that the hub doesn't appear to support ExFAT at all, and NTFS support is dodgy (it won't show files with any special characters in the file names, some files just randomly don't appear, etc.). VFAT worked ok but was limited to 4GB max file size. Surprisingly, the router supports the Linux filesystem Ext4 - which is probably the best option - it works fine, and files can be any size. And for Apple users, I haven't tried it, but I suspect HFS+ might work.