I plugged an external HD into my router and now it doesn't work on my blu ray player

[futurefields]

I plugged my external HD into my router's USB port to experiment with network file sharing. I must have flipped a setting on the hard drive itself because now if I plug it back into my blu ray player, the only folder my blu ray player can access on the drive is the Recycle Bin.

Is this ringing any bells for anybody that might point me in a direction to rectify this? I was able to access my video files on there from the blu ray player before, but now all I have is a recycle bin. The files and folders are all still on there.

 

[futurefields]

Seems to be some .143 files left on there by my router that I can't remove that might be causing the issue. When I try to delete them I get "file is corrupt cannot be removed" ?

 

[futurefields]

Weird, so it works if I plug it into the USB port on my other TV, and all my other devices, just doesnt work on the USB port on my blu ray player anymore.

So to sum things up, hard drive was working on the blu ray player's USB.

I unplugged it from the blu ray USB and plugged it into the router USB.

Now it no longer works on the blu ray USB but it does still work on the Roku USB.

 

[bruceb]

Try what it says here on Page #2

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/for...-folders-after-connecting-to-lg-led-tv/page-2

I am assuming the solution was changing the permissions in the host computers hd to allow access to everyone. Right click hd choose share with and advanced settings, advanced button, tick the box share this file/folder, enter share name adjust permissions for everyone (just keep default) hit apply. Everyone permission has to be in there unless you specify a user/group etc. Everyone has basic read, read/execute, list files access. Able to download/copy, execute the file says stream a video or music file across the network, and of course reading content to list and see whats in the folders. Special permissions goes beyond that and gets into admin type rights.

From what I was able to gather, it seems the Router and your Roku are using some version of Linux and of course windows is not.