G+_William Burlingame Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Many routers have a USB port. Is it possible to connect a USB drive to the router's USB port and access it via the internet. If so, how would I do that? The cost of storing the data I have with a paid cloud service is prohibitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Usually. Asus got in some hot water for having the internet sharing on as default. You will need to poke open the appropriate ports. (SMB, NFS, AFP, (s)FTP, etc.) I'd opt for a VPN into your LAN over an open share on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I'd recommend the VPN option too, but it depends on what sharing capabilities it has. SFTP would probably be OK to use, but I don't think I'd do this with SAMBA shares. Just setup port forwarding (22 for SFTP) to direct that traffic back to the internal IP of the router. Of course, use at your own risk and it's only secure as the weakest link ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Like Eddie said,Asus has USB ports. They also have aicloud(I believe) as a smartphone app. It didn't work out too well though, at least for me. If you have a server on your network there's also the possibility of own cloud. The specifics for USB on your router would come down to what model it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I have two Asus routers, both with USB, and I've got a 64gb flash drive setup as a "nas" but only use it over the lan though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I'd also opt for non standard ports. Say the 30K+ range. (don't think samba/SMB will like that though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Eddie Foy? You are correct only Linux clients allow non-standard SMB ports. Also most all ISP's block the three SMB ports from the outside world. So unless you do a VPN, SMB is is useless. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William Burlingame Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 I guess I'll just find another solution. Drobo Transporter and Pogoplug are other options and they're easy to implement. I just noticed the USB socket and thought I might find a way to use it, if it didn't take a lot of effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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