External HDD through Router

[Commy1]

Hello, I’m new and this might be a derpy question. 

 

I’m trying to get an external Seagate HDD to become available over my wifi connection. I’m with Bell and have the basic Home Hub 1000 modem they sent me, it has 2 USB ports and is supposedly capable of doing just this as advertised on the Bell website. 

However they do disclaim at the bottom of their page that “due to the variety of external storage options Tech support will not help with this setup process.” 

So here I am. 

 

I’ve tried going into 192.168.2.1 and the modem does recognize that there is storage attached but there is no indication as to its size or that it’s allowing access to the network, and it’s not found when I tried searching for network servers. If I click on it all in the modem tools it only allows me to rename it or eject.

Presently the HDD is completely empty and partitioned into 2 sections, 1TB FAT32 / 1TB MacJournaled, I’m confident that one of those would be readable if that’s possibly the issue but if not then changing it wouldn’t be hard. 

 

Any canucks with a Home Hub 1000 get this working?

[BigDamn]

Have you seen this here? https://support.bell.ca/Internet/Connection-help/Home-Hub-1000-modem.how_to_connect_a_usb_device_to_my_home_hub_1000_2

 

If that doesn't work, try making the drive one large FAT32 partition. Seeing as how its an old router you also might need to make the drive MBR if it is currently GPT.

[PineyCreek]

Not a Canuck, but my understanding is the Home Hub 1000 router is using SMB 1.0 (famously insecure with some of the recent exploits) and so you're going to be limited.  Try using smb://<IP of HH>

[Commy1]

11 minutes ago, BigDamn said:

Have you seen this here? https://support.bell.ca/Internet/Connection-help/Home-Hub-1000-modem.how_to_connect_a_usb_device_to_my_home_hub_1000_2

 

If that doesn't work, try making the drive one large FAT32 partition. Seeing as how its an old router you also might need to make the drive MBR if it is currently GPT.

This is the Bell page that I was referring to, it’s not as simple as they make it appear lol. 

 

10 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

Not a Canuck, but my understanding is the Home Hub 1000 router is using SMB 1.0 (famously insecure with some of the recent exploits) and so you're going to be limited.  Try using smb://<IP of HH>

I’ll see what I can do, thank you