Dear community members.
I recently purchased 6TB WD My Book (starts with WDBBGB) and attached to wi-fi router USB 3.0 port. All I want is to enable everyone in my family to move/copy files and folders in their notebooks and other external hard drives and organize them in My Book. So every user can organize and acess their files.
My router is ZTE ZXHN H267A. I turned on FTP Server and FTP Security is on. Samba Service is off. Additionally, even I can login to FTP server using filezilla, it doesn’t let me copy any files to My Book.
The strange thing is that my router interface shows My Book under USB Stroge but it says total capacity and available capacity is 0 KB. I’m quite confused.
I would appreciate if any of you inform me how to configure my router and if there is any required configuration in my notebooks running on Windows 10.
Turn Samba Service ON … if everything then works, then you’ll know your router only supports USB Storage via SMB and most likely via DLNA UPnP (which the datasheet below mentions under USB)
https://www.daimler.se/tuotteet/paatelaitteet/vdsl2/ZTE/downloads/ZXHN-H267A_datasheet/h267a-datasheet.pdf/preview_popup/file
Most (if not all) routers i’ve owned or seen only support USB sharing via DLNA Protocol … and routers can be fussy about the Capacity, File System and Partition table. Which why i never use USB router file sharing. (I have an older Generation My Cloud for my home network)
Hello,
I’m sorry for my late reply. Yes, my router only supports USB Storage. I turned Samba Service ON and I tried for several times but ended up with no luck. Whenever I try to copy a file to the destination folder, it seems, I need permission to perform this action. I think I missed a point. I attached screenshots to show the steps I followed to create a shared folder on my WD USB external drive. I would appreciate if you could point out if I made a critical mistake.
Note: Since I can’t attach more than two images in a message as new user. I uploaded screenshots to my google drive : WD - Google Drive. Sorry for the inconvenience
