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[neuroned]

Let me first thank you in advance for reading my post.

I recently purchased the dir-655 router, and am impressed by it's speed. I had no problems configuring the router to my liking, and have found that all of my wireless devices communicate with it flawlessly.

However, my main reason for purchasing this router was for the USB port. I had hoped to connect my 2TB external drive and have it accessible by all wireless devices in my home. To my understanding, the USB port relies on the use of the Shareport Utility. I've installed the Shareport Utility to my laptop for wireless access to my media files for streaming.

Here's my problem. How can I access my media on my external HDD connected to the dir-655 with Apple TV2? I've read several options for PS3 users... and they all seem to involve leaving the pc/laptop running. I would ultimately like to bypass the necessity of leaving my laptop on... but if that's not a possibility, I can live with it being left on.

Therefore, is it possible to access the external drive connected to the dir-655 with my Apple TV 2 by using the laptop as a bridge? Can I access the content via Apple TV by using Windows SMB just as I currently do to access media stored on my laptop?

To summarize, I want to have access to the media on my external drive connected to the dir-655 via Apple TV2. How can I make this happen?

Thanks again!

~ J

[FurryNutz]

You may want to visit the shareport forums for this:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?board=252.0


From my understanding that anything shareport needs the utility installed on a PC device. For game consoles to access the device, I presume it would need to be shared out on a PC or file server and connected and shared out over a network connection that does not use the shareport utility. I presume the the shareport utility would not work in this environment.

It might be preferred in this case as your trying to share out files and such.

This is what I have on my system, 3Tb shared on a file server PC that my xboxes and Boxee connects too.