Hello,
I just purchased a GL-MT2500 (Brume 2) and want to connect with my Xfinity cable modem with built-in wifi (XB8-T). This modem has 1x 2.5Gbps port and 3x 1GBps ports.
The problem I'm facing is that my wifi is built-in modem so when Brume 2 is connected to 2.5Gbps port, I'm not able to see it with ip address that is assigned by the modem without physically connecting my laptop to Brume2's LAN port.
I only want to utilize the USB3.0 port on Brume2 for connecting a hard drive that can be accessed wirelessly in my home network.
Any ideas how to accomplish this? Thanks
Hello,
Please try to enable the option Allow Access Samba from WAN
And you can use the WAN IP of MT2500 to access the SAMBA from WAN (Xfinity modem) clients.
Hi @bruce thanks for the instructions. Unfortunately it didn't work for me since my hard drive is formatted in exfat format.
Instead I used another drive that is formatted in ext3 and it worked perfectly. It is showing that GL-MT2500 don't work with exfat format drive (as per other user comments on this forum). I hope GL-Inet fixes this issue soon.
Hello,
May I know what your MT2500 firmware version is?
I'm using MT2500 v4.7.4 to try reproducing, seem to be normal to work. You can test the EXFAT format one more time if possible.
Hi @bruce
I'm running the latest stable firmware v4.7.4
One info I probably missed to provide is that I'm working on M4 Macbook Pro with Sequoia.
It seems Brume2 works with exfat when accessed through windows pc but don't write via macos. Unfortunately, mac is my only machine so I had to get my drive formatted in ext3 on someone's linux machine.
if glinet can get this to work with macos that will be awesome as I also have a TP-Link router that handles exfat formatted harddrive with no issues on mac.
Thanks
Thanks for the detail info.
I think I can try testing this in the MacBook (but M1) with Sequoia.
Hi Bruce were you able to test with mac? Thanks
Yes, the MacBook read and write work ok,
my test devices info:
USB stick, exfat, SanDisk 16GB
MT2500, v4.7.4, Samba
MacBook Air, M1, Sequoia
MT2500 --- AX1800 --- MacBook Air
Thanks @bruce this is really helpful and tells me there is something different in my setup. I'll try to retest this over coming weekend.
@bruce I tried it again and I still get cannot copy (-50 error) for exfat drive. Ext3 format drive works great though.
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Thanks for your further test.
If you didn't mind, native Linux partition formats such as ext3 or ext4 will be better for compatibility.