My BT router has a USB port (as did my old Orange one in France) into which one can plug a USB stick.
My (Android) tablet can show this in its filer app, and contents can be
read and written.
Can RISC OS connect with this? Perhaps using LanMan or some other
networking app?
If so, it could be very useful for transferring files.
connected an old spinning rust HDD into my SmartHub 6 (you don't say
which model of router you have) and could see the directory contents
via LanMan98, but transferring a large file resulted in malfunctions.
There's something about it in the ROOL fora.
I'd be very interested to know if it works for you
In article <c26ab96558.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
connected an old spinning rust HDD into my SmartHub 6 (you don't say
which model of router you have) and could see the directory contents
via LanMan98, but transferring a large file resulted in malfunctions.
There's something about it in the ROOL fora.
I'd be very interested to know if it works for you
The hub is: apparently BTHub6.
So how do you access your disc?
John
In article <c26ab96558.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
connected an old spinning rust HDD into my SmartHub 6 (you don't say
which model of router you have) and could see the directory contents via LanMan98, but transferring a large file resulted in malfunctions. There's something about it in the ROOL fora.
I'd be very interested to know if it works for you
The hub is: apparently BTHub6.
So how do you access your disc?
LanMan98. The drive's name is "shared_disk" (thanks, BT, for not telling
us /anywhere/ in the hub's web pages or Help). There is no user name or password.
I had to find the drive name using Linux.
I don't know what disc formats the hub understands. I formatted it as
FAT32 to give what I thought was best portability.
Do let us all know how you get on. I was able to get a directory
listing, and to write a file to it, but reading anything using RISC OS
just seems to result in errors. It's readable and writable just fine
in Ubuntu, of course.
My BT router has a USB port (as did my old Orange one in
France) into which one can plug a USB stick.
My (Android) tablet can show this in its filer app, and
contents can be read and written.
Can RISC OS connect with this? Perhaps using LanMan or
some other networking app?
If so, it could be very useful for transferring files.
Perhaps this satisfaction of my curiosity also explains or reinforces why
I avoid the routers provided by ISPs such as BT. It's as if they
deliberately hide more esoteric features so as not to confuse users with complexity.
I don't know what disc formats the hub understands. I formatted it as
FAT32 to give what I thought was best portability.
Do let us all know how you get on. I was able to get a directory
listing, and to write a file to it, but reading anything using RISC OS
just seems to result in errors. It's readable and writable just fine
in Ubuntu, of course.
The Readyshare page shows all the settings and I can also
enable HTTP/HTTPS/FTP for local or internet access. FTP
worked first time with !FTPc and the HTTP link let me
examine the directory contents and download files (which
all arrive typed as Data by NetSurf).
In message <d2c7db6558.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
LanMan98. The drive's name is "shared_disk" (thanks, BT, for not telling
us /anywhere/ in the hub's web pages or Help). There is no user name or
password.
That would be because it is not a supported feature.
I had to find the drive name using Linux.
I don't know what disc formats the hub understands. I formatted it as
FAT32 to give what I thought was best portability.
Do let us all know how you get on. I was able to get a directory
listing, and to write a file to it, but reading anything using RISC OS
just seems to result in errors. It's readable and writable just fine
in Ubuntu, of course.
You could try changing the following in LanMan98's !Run file:
| The following line tells LanMan98 to use raw read requests for speed if
the
| server claims to support it. Some NAS, and Windows Vista claim to
support
| it, but actually fail to do so. If you have problems with your
connections
| comment the following line out to make LanMan98 avoid raw reads in all
| cases.
Set LanMan98$ReadRaw ""
Perhaps this satisfaction of my curiosity also explains or reinforces why I avoid the routers provided by ISPs such as BT. It's as if they deliberately hide more esoteric features so as not to confuse users with complexity.
Set LanMan98$ReadRaw ""
Thank you for that nugget, Doug.
"It appears the BT Hub 6 is using SMBv1 which is an obsolete and unsafe protocol which is disabled in modern versions of Windows."
Now RISC OS I can understand but a product released in the last 5 years
does make you question things but then again I suppose they supply a Hub
not a NAS :-)
In article <792a426658.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
Set LanMan98$ReadRaw ""
Thank you for that nugget, Doug.
Doesn't seem to be present in Omni.
John
Do let us all know how you get on.
So I guess the key things are: BTHUB is what the share is called by the
SMB1 server in the Hub, and the memory device name is needed in the device path.
A drawback, but only slight; I can't write to the stick from my Android tablet.
It complains about "permissions".
What Android app are you using to access the hub?
A drawback, but only slight; I can't write to the stick from my Android tablet.
It complains about "permissions".
But it would be nice to transfer back as well - for further work, corrections, or whatever!
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