@IrvSp I'm not sure how setting some values on 1 of our 5 internal LAN machines would cause: Every inside the network to NEVER need a password, but can still read+write. But someone 1000 miles away...

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...