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USB HD Sharing

ryanadamsfan
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‎10-01-2024 01:19 PM

I have just replaced my Iomega USB HD with an Integral USB HD. The Iomega drive, once plugged into my Hub 3, could be accessed remotely, and mapped as a network drive. The Integral drive does not, it is showing on my router page as having the address of \\vodafone.broadband\SMI_USBDISK_1_7d65 but I cannot access that location, when I try to I get an error (both via file explorer or a web browser), and even if I replace the start with its local IP 192.168.1.1 I still get an error in file explorer, but in the web browser I am getting a 404 Not Found page.

Any ideas please?

Weirdly, I can access the contents of the USB drive when I go to This PC\Vodafone Wi-Fi Hub\Music\All Music, but I'd like to be able to map the drive and I'd like to be able to access the files remotely.

Update: Having now plugged my Iomega USB HD back in, I'm having the same problem with it. Have Vodafone done something to the router to stop USB sharing?

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ryanadamsfan
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‎10-01-2024 10:57 PM - edited ‎10-01-2024 10:58 PM

I’ve done two things and have success…

Originally the Iomega was plugged into the USB port via a USB extension cable, on my subsequent attempts with both drives I plugged them directly into the routers usb port. 
So I thought I’d recreate that method (thinking it would have no affect), using the Integral flash drive. Having done so I used an app on my IOS device (ESFileExplorer) and saw I had full SMB connectivity. 
I then tried to access the drive via my Windows 10 device. No joy, even with firewall completely off. I then turned off Samba on Windows, restarted, tested no joy, turned on Samba, restarted and this time I was able to access and map my USB device but only using the 192.168.1.1 path, not \\vodafone.broadband\…

Could it all be down to adding a USB extension cable?!

 

Jayach
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‎11-01-2024 01:15 AM

@ryanadamsfan wrote:
Could it all be down to adding a USB extension cable?!

I very much doubt it, it really shouldn't make a difference. However, if it works for you, all well and good.

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Ripshod
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‎11-01-2024 06:46 AM

It's well known that certain asus router's suffer interference between the 2.4GHz band and usb3 devices, so it's quite feasible that the vodafone router is also sensitive to this.

Could also have been a faulty, or poorly shielded usb cable.