Having access to hard drive vs wifi

Darkwolf441 · 9 Jul 2017 at 07:46

Not sure if this is the right place, but am completey lost on how to do this.
Basicly ive all my music on my pc's internal HDD'S. so i bought i external one and copy all my music and films to this. I want to be able to have the missis have acsess to the drive vs the wifi though here laptop so she can get music when she wants.

The router ive got is this one
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Asus AC3100 Dual-Band ADSL/VDSL Gigabit Wi-Fi Modem Router with Parental Controls= £208.99

Total: £217.69
(includes shipping: £8.70)

And the HDD is a 5TB of this one
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Can anyone pleased my sort this out.

hornetstinger · 9 Jul 2017 at 07:52

Simpest would be to buy a empty NAS, fit your HD into it and put that on your LAN.

Or buy a USB enclosure, connect your HD to the USB socket on the router.

Darkwolf441 · 9 Jul 2017 at 08:17

http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/consumer/backup/expansion-hard-drive/

Darkwolf441 · 9 Jul 2017 at 08:20

Ive got the HDD conneted to the router.
ive tryed setting up the Aidisk but that came up as fail

hornetstinger · 9 Jul 2017 at 08:25

And you can't access the data? I've never used the USB thing on my router, I think it is used for router app storage but yours is a different model and more expensive.

Darkwolf441 · 9 Jul 2017 at 08:44

tryed doing what ive found on asus web page but came up this
DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) is a service that allows network clients to connect to the wireless router, even with a dynamic public IP address, through its registered domain name. The wireless router is embedded with the ASUS DDNS service and other DDNS services.

The wireless router currently uses a private WAN IP address.
This router may be in the multiple-NAT environment and DDNS service cannot work in this environment.

BigT · 9 Jul 2017 at 09:07

I think you're trying to setup the wrong feature on your router. It's the samba share feature you want - page 34 of your manual ( http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/DSL-AC88U/E12102_DSL_AC88U_Manual.pdf ) . Set that up then on your wife's wifi connected laptop you put in windows explorer \\x.x.x.x where that's your router IP. You should then see the share you setup