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USB Share not accessible when WAN is down
My internet went down for a few hours, so decided to watch a movie stored on the USB drive attached to the XR1000 router. While every device in the house was able to make a connection to the router, ...
Welp, seems I got the share to work as expected with the WAN cable unplugged. Darned if I can fully explain why, but here's what I did...
I noticed in Windows Networking that my Sony 4k player UBP-X800 was still connecting via wireless from the last time I had it check for firmware updates. It showed as a media player and media source. Looking into the settings on it, apparently by default it had enabled it's media server and also network access control using UPNP. I turned all that off, and disabled the wireless conection on it so it no longer was connecting. I then turned on, then off, UPNP on the router under Advanced settings, which seemed to do a long reset each time. I'm guessing it was resetting some kind of networking cache and in the process flushed out the bad junk from the Sony player. If I had to guess, the Sony player was doing some kind of loop on UPNP bogging down other services....maybe.
I'm glad that my previous suspicion that the router was disabling SMB share functionality when WAN is down was wrong. Thanks to all who put time in to help work through this.
I'll continue to monitor the topic in case I can jump in but it's a purely NG feature so I have less knowledge on it and I can't think of anything on the DumaOS side that would be affecting it
Ok so I formatted a 500Gb mech drive in Windows 11 for NTFS. Put it in a USB caddy I have here.
Put some media files on it.
Disconnected it from the PC.
With my XR1000v1, after it was powered ON and ready and NOT connected to any ISP modem, using MS Edge, was able to log into the web page at both 192.168.1.1 and routerlogin.net:
Checked the USB settings and enabled the folowing:
After it was enabled, I rebooted the router and during the reboot, I connected the USB drive to the back USB 3.0 port of the router. After the drive was ready, I opened Network icon on the deak stop and found the XR1000 media being displayed:
RIght selecting on the icon, I selected Open in Media Player:
Media files are playable here. All this was with out the router connected to anything. XR1000 is not valid web page access here on mine nor is XR1000v1. 192.168.1.1 or routerlogin.net works for me.