Read-only USB Thumb Drive, Archer AC1750 C8
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My old/cheap wifi router could easily do both:
1. From within my home's local network (LAN) I could read/write to the USB Thumb Drive plugged in.
(No name/password was ever needed)
2. From the Internet (WAN), anyone could read from the USB Thumb Drive (but only if they knew the name/password).
(Write access was never allowed, no matter which name/password was used)
My new/expensive wifi router (Tp-Link C8 AC1750) can't seem to do both. One seems to exclude the other.
Does anyone know what config settings I would need to do both of these, simultaneously?
1. From inside my LAN, read/write, no password ever needed.
2. From WAN, read only, password needed. Write mode = never.
I'm pretty sure 100% of this was done INSIDE my old router, where the thumb drive lives.
I would think those would be a VERY common setting. Not sure why it seems to be so hard to find.
Don't know the answer for the specific router, but I've got no problem on my A20.
I'm on W10, and I have a Windows Credential that supplies the UserID and Password needed to access the drive:
At least I recall that worked. I don't do that anymore so I can't be sure (use Access Autorization) as my DLNA client can't handle the access request. I don't share it over the WAN either.
I suspect you had created that Credential for the old router and forgot that is how it was done?
I could be wrong, but doing the above might work for you now?