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Supported external storage devices
Router Model
USB Stick
USB Hard Drive
MicroSD Card
GL-B1300 (Convexa B)
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Note: The power consumption of USB hard drive is quite high. You should use it
with an external power supply. Otherwise, it may cause malfunction.
9.3.2. Access the storage device
You can access the contents of the external storage device from your computer
or smart phone. Please check the following guidance for the using of file sharing
among different operating systems.
General Notes
You may be able to access the share via \\192.168.8.1\ or smb://192.168.8.1/ or
with GL-modelXXX instead of 192.168.8.1 (eg \\GL-AR750S\) in your system's file
explorer. Since sharing is enabled to the LAN by default (this includes both wired
AND wireless clients) and maps a "bad user" to Guest, then even if they don't
supply a username and password or an invalid one, ANYONE connected to your
router can access the files in the share in Read-Only mode. If you enable Writable
mode this applies to both Guests AND the default root user. If you enable write
access, anybody can create or delete files and folders, if you disable write
access, not even the root user can delete them via SMB (they can through the CLI
though). We can hope that in a future revision there is a simple user
management and that a named user (or root) can read and/or write while Guests
are limited by the Writable or a Public Write flag on a share (and having multiple
shares would be great as well).
Windows
Method 1: Samba 2.0 (SMB2.0) Support
We suggest Samba 2.0 support for Windows 10 users.
Due to the security vulunerabilitiy of the Samba1.0 protocol, Samba1.0 is not
enabled by default in Window 10. You may modify the router Samba
configuration.