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Connect Samsung Smart TV to network drive

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  • 03-01-2013 9:00pm
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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭


    I have a USB hard drive plugged in to my router, and it is currently visible from all my computers. I put all of my movies on the drive.

    I have a Samsung series 8 smart TV, and I was wondering if there's a way of connecting it to the drive wirelessly to play the movies. This all works well when the drive is wired in to the TV via USB, but it has to be wireless.

    There must be an app for the TV (or even a homebrew hack or something) that will allow me to connect to the network drive as if it's connected via USB. Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks.
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    Headshot
    Registered Users Posts: 53,953 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Does your tv have wireless connection?


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    Headshot wrote: »
    Does your tv have wireless connection?

    Yes, I only bought it a month ago. Wireless working perfectly


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    GreenWolfe
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    I'm not an expert on this, but afaik you would need your router to act as a DLNA server. Samsung smart TV's should have a DLNA client already (AllShare Play, I think?).


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    EarthlyPangaea wrote: »
    I'm not an expert on this, but afaik you would need your router to act as a DLNA server. Samsung smart TV's should have a DLNA client already (AllShare Play, I think?).

    Well my router certainly will not be able to run a server, so what you're saying is I'm going to have to keep my computer on and run the server off that for it to work...


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    Chet T16
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    What router is it?


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    Chet T16 wrote: »
    What router is it?

    Apple Time Capsule. Unless I am greatly mistaken there is no onboard hardware to run anything more than the DHCP server, and afaik it can't run anything like wrt


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