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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-505 => Topic started by: carnevlu on November 01, 2012, 02:15:51 AM
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Hi everybody,
for some reason I'm curios to understand if it this possible launch the service AFP and/or SMB on this device with target the HDD connected to the USB.
any suggest?
Thx for your availability
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If the storage is enabled, you should be able to map the connection in windows possibly. //192.168.0.1
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I did some experimenting tonight, and it appears that, no, the DIR-505 does not act as a SMB or AFP server. It does have a DLNA server but that's a far cry from what you're looking for. You can access files on an attached device using the Shareport app or the web interface to that, but you can't map a drive.
If you want something that can be an SMB server (not AFP as far as I know), look at CloudFTP (http://www.hypershop.com/CloudFTP-p/cftp-black.htm). It is NOT a router, but can operate in Ad Hoc mode to wirelessly serve a USB disk, or can join an existing network. I have one and have used it as an SMB server (also DLNA). (On the site I linked you will see references to both CloudFTP and iUSBport - these are the same product.) Like the DIR-505, the CloudFTP has its quirks but I'm mostly happy with it as a solution to certain problems.
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Does the DIR-505L or 506L provide any of this?
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506L, no. I don't have a 505L, but the specs suggest that it doesn't have these features. From what I understand, the 505L is a "mild refresh" of the 505 with a folding power plug and more power from the USB port, but otherwise much the same.
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