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Title: Unable to share 3tb usb hdd. Why?
Post by: pippomostarda on March 09, 2013, 06:19:52 AM

I need to share a 3tb western digital elements usb. Dns shows the drive, but i can't see it in my network. Any solution?

Title: Re: Unable to share 3tb usb hdd. Why?
Post by: ivan on March 09, 2013, 03:18:37 PM

Simple answer.  The USB port is only for transfer to/from the NAS - generally as a backup - and is not available to the network other than a standard print server.

To share the data on your USB disk you first have to copy it to the DNS-345 then it can be shared over the network.