Is it possible to share my extetnal USB hard drive via my wireless router?

Question

Is it possible to share my extetnal USB hard drive via my wireless router?

Answer 1

No. You would be referring to a NAS (network attached storage) arrangement. Some routers do offer a NAS option but does not seem like the Airlink101 offers this option. You could share this drive while attached to your computer. The computer would need to remain on and not on sleep mode for other computers to have access to it.

Answer 2

I know you can share both on the network through your computer, but that would require you to leave your pc on. In theory it should work all you would have to do is to map the network drive in regards to the hard drive. And then make sure that the drivers for the burner is on all the PCs you want access to it and then share it.

Answer 3

you have to share it from one computer to the network router then to everyone else. since the router im guessing doesnt have firewire or usb ports

Answer 4

Only if you have a NAS, but they are usually not cheap and don't support writing to NTFS file systems - only ext3 and FAT32. Otherwise it needs to be mounted on a computer with an SMB server (Windows, OS X, and Linux/BSD all have SMB servers).



But just leave the computer it is plugged into power on all the time and network share the drive.



In windows

Open My computer, right click the drive and click properties

Then click Sharing/Security,

Share the drive and give it a name like 'hdd'



Allow file sharing on your software firewalls and determine the LAN IP address of the computer (or use computer name)

Hold winodws key + r

cmd

ipconfig /all



Then on another computer open Windows Explorer (not internet explorer)

and in the address bar type

\\{IP address on Computer with Ext HDD)\{shared drive name}



ie.



\\192.168.0.100\hdd



or computer name



\\Server\hdd



You should then see the drive