topic Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2 in Broadband & Landline

Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

RupturedDuck — Mon, 08 May 2023 17:38:09 GMT

I’m trying to access a USB hard drive plugged into my Bright Box 2. From reading other posts there seems to be a missing menu in the router software.
The hard drive shows up, “shared as” is “- -“ amd there is no “share” button to the right or any USB options in any menu.
From what I’ve also read on a post here, the drive should show up in the appropriate section of my Smart TV, but it’s not found.

Tried setting up a FAT partition of 100mb in addition to the 1TB NTFS partition I’m trying to view.
Any suggestions appreciated on accessing the USB menu on the Bright Box, or why neither partition show up.

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

XRaySpeX — Mon, 08 May 2023 17:59:08 GMT

@RupturedDuck wrote:

From what I’ve also read on a post here, the drive should show up in the appropriate section of my Smart TV, but it’s not found.

Not true! It has nowt to do with any TV. It is a separate device hanging off the router. On a PC look for it at Network / Computer / Brightbox.

You need to enable SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support. In Windows this is to be found in Windows Features.

The USB Settings on my router seem to have gone AWOL or I'm going blind!

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

RupturedDuck — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:02:20 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply. The drive shows up on my laptop (Ubuntu). Unfortunately I can’t access either of the partitions via the router, but can see them.

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

XRaySpeX — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:04:45 GMT

Thanks! Can you enable SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing under Linux?

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

RupturedDuck — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:05:16 GMT

Accessing the hard drive thru the Smart TV (LG) is what I’m trying to achieve.

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

XRaySpeX — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:09:23 GMT

Can't see how you'll be able to do that. It'll only be viewable from a PC-like device with a File Explorer-like program.

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

Mustrum — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:15:10 GMT

Does the TV not have a USB port you could use?

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

RupturedDuck — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:15:19 GMT

No worries. Thanks for trying though

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

RupturedDuck — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:18:43 GMT

The TV does have a USB port and that’s what I’ve used to now. Want to have access for other TVs to the drive too.

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

Mustrum — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:23:50 GMT

Then you would be better with a NAS with DNLA.

For example

https://www.dignited.com/46225/how-to-stream-media-from-nas-drive-to-a-smart-tv/

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

MBEE — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:51:04 GMT

I wanted to set this up on my BB2 and was able to do it by enabling SMB 1.0/CIFS as per your instructions; however I promptly undid it when I saw this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/troubleshoot/smbv1-not-installed-by-default-in-windows

"We strongly recommend that you don't reinstall SMBv1. This is because this older protocol has known security issues regarding ransomware and other malware."

and

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/storage-at-microsoft/stop-using-smb1/ba-p/425858

Am far from a networking expert myself; how much of the above is paranoia?

Re: Access of USB Hard Drive on Bright Box 2

XRaySpeX — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 21:01:58 GMT

@MBEE : Dunno but I've always use MB 1.0/CIFS with EE routers' USB.