WZR-300HP USB support - multiple devices via a USB Hub?

[dschreiber]

The WZR-300HP can support external USB hard drives as well as printers. Question is, can you hook up a USB hub and have the WZR-300HP control both an external USB drive and a printer?

[dschreiber]

I just hooked up a USB hub to the USB port then plugged in a memory stick and the printer I had previously working. The printer still works and the router recognizes the memory stick. However, I can't seem to access it from Windows very well. I'll see if another thread discusses this.

[dschreiber]

Success!
I have a USB flash drive on port 1 and the printer on port 2 of the hub (it seemed to not work if the printer was on port 1). I'm using Windows7.
To set up the drive, i made sure it was FAT32 file system (a supported format) then:
1) enabled USB disc on USB tab under Services main tab, Disc info. section (see attached file, USB settings for USB drive sharing.pdf)
2) plugged it in. It was recognized by the router.
3) switched to the NAS tab under services tab and:
- enable ProFTPD
- enable "Allow Write"
- enable Samba file sharing
- added a "share" (I had only one path option); i set to read/write; i called the share 'test'
- added a user (same user I set up in ProFTPD section (though my guess is they can be different) and assigned them to the share. "Access Shares"
- (left all other defaults) then hit apply settings
See screenshot, NAS settings for USB drive sharing.pdf
4) Go to windows and map a network drive to \\192.168.11.1\test (test is what i named the mounted drive)
5) windows mapped it and i can see it and even delete files.
Plus, it works quite quickly!

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[Eastmarch]

Great investigation :D

One thing for people who want to use NAS functionality to consider is that the processor on the router has to still do both the job of routing and now serving files.

If you are using this for relatively small amounts of data this is great. If you add a 4TB Drive to it and try to stream movies, this is a job better done by a dedicated NAS.

We sell those, ya know :)