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Can't share a HDD through a router
Hi all,
I recently purchased a new routeur, D-Link's DIR-825. I am quite happy with it's performance so far, the main reason I bought this model was that it has a USB port so that I could use a HDD as a network.
I installed the "Shareport" utility provided by D-Link and yesterday I finally got around to plug my HDD into the routeur. Things went smoothly and I was able to "connect" to the drive from my home computer.
I then turn on my laptop, which is my work computer, and tried to connect to the drive. Shareport told me that it was already connected and needed to be disconnected.
I mean the whole idea behind me buying a routeur with a USB port was to have a hard drive that would serve as a network backup that could be accessed by both computers at any given time...
Besides, if only one computer can be connected to it at a time that's not what I call sharing, the "Shareport" utility should have a different name then.
Now is that inherent to this type of setup or is it simply a show of the software limited capabilities?
Thanks,
Phil