Setting Up A HDD Attached To Router As An Accessible Drive On The PC??

INSOMANiAC 22 Jan 2018 23:02:37 4,732 posts
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Hellllo

So I've put a portable hard drive in my router so I can use it with Kodi around the house, thats all working fine, but I want to be able to access it as a hard drvie on my PC.

I can see it as a network location and access it but it has the wrong file structure (it has music, videos and pictures, my Kodi system is 'films' and 'tv shows'. I can see all the files in the Video section but just all lumped together.

I followed a guide and went to 'This PC' and pressed 'Map network drive'. But it only gives me the choice to map my own PC as a network drive, the Router isn't showing in there.

How do I sort this out?

Thanks

PS Also, is it possible to have more than one drive connected using an adapter as it only has one USB port on the router?

Your-Mother 22 Jan 2018 23:40:04 8,172 posts
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Most routers don't directly expose the network of the attached USB storage, instead serving it through DLNA (which is why you can only see Music, Videos, Pictures etc). You can probably get to it via \\ip.of.router\label.of.hdd but that isn't guaranteed, as some shittier brands like Belkin like adding extra stuff to the name.

mal 23 Jan 2018 03:59:43 29,326 posts
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So as far as the PC's concerned, it's a windows share? That should be easy enough to work out the right parameters for then.

Does make me wonder slightly why Insomniac couldn't see it, but there you go.

Your-Mother 23 Jan 2018 04:17:32 8,172 posts
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Because it's not browsable.

D_arkTrooper 23 Jan 2018 18:14:51 1,492 posts
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I had a faff doing the same thing a while back with my ASUS router but I think i had to trawl through the routers own settings pages to where I could manually create the folders for the drive and give read/write permissions etc.

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