How to share a hard drive connected to a router via USB?

Question

Computer networks

Good afternoon!

There is an asus wl-500gp v.2 connected to it a 1TB WD Green hard drive. FTP raised, but this is not enough. I would like to watch movies directly from this disk and download torrents directly to it. I watch movies through ASUS O! Play HDP-R3 Air. From the shared folders on the laptop, the player pulls over wi-fi without any problems. Plus, there is a Samsung Galaxy Tab, from which I would also like to watch something from this disk.

Well, that's the question, respectively, how to share this disk in LAN via wi-fi?

Answer 1

You here: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=3171
In general, I highly recommend this forum as the most extensive knowledge base about Asus routers.
I also recommend reflashing the router (if you haven't already done so). You can use "enthusiast" firmware, or use DD-WRT . If you select the latter, then you can configure Samba directly through the web interface. I myself am the owner of Asus Wl500gP v1 and will answer any of your questions via PM.

Answer 2

There should be a tab in the router settings where you can see the connected devices. Try to find your hard drive there, its IP should be listed there.

Answer 3

Samba? NFS?
And to watch movies directly, FTP is enough

Answer 4

Similarly, sergeyZ recommend flashing on DD-WRT.
Upgrade samba from version 2 to version 3 (everything is in the dd-wrt wiki) and connect as a network drive, or just use a shared resource.

Answer 5

I even bought myself a hard drive. But later it turned out that the speed of access to the hard drive from this particular router does not exceed 1 megabyte / s, which is quite modest. On Oleg's forum, I read that this is a hardware problem of a specific model (something with USB) and therefore there is no software solution. So I scored :-)

Answer 6

Attention! The best solution in conjunction with ASUS O!Play HDP-R3 Air and asus wl-500gp v.2 Raise samba on the player itself! We put scripts from moservices.org there are both Sabma and FTP and a lot of other useful things. I decided to raise it on the player itself, because the disc is still more often used for viewing. So you need a stable connection. But you can throw something on the disk or read it via FTP or through the ball, because this is done one-time. As a result, the ball / ftp / no problems with encoding / no problems with writing to ntfs and working in Windows. The only speed is around 2 MB/sec, but it's faster than torrent download speed, so in my opinion, everything is fine!