Another thought,
Some routers have a USB slot and allow files sharing through that, check if yours can. Three of mine did, even the ISP supplied one, my current WiFi mesh one does not though.
You could try that but I wouldn't. They're likely to have been added on the cheap and won't have a decent set of functionality and security.
For example, my ISP supplied router (A Plusnet branded sagem one) has a USB 2 port not USB3. It also only knows how to handle FAT32 (FAT32 is old, insecure, and gets more and more wasteful as the partition size increases) but worse than that, it only provides SMBv1 and guest access.
That means any user of any machine on my LAN has full, unrestricted access to that drive with no authentication. It also means you have additional hoops to jump through to access it as the world and his wife are abandoning SMBv1 and rightly so(it's very old and very insecure).
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:26 am
