RPi Remote Network, Shared as USB Host

ozmo

I have a Samsung Tv with media player built in- but it wil only browse usb drives inserted in its usb slots. There is Ethernet but you cannot map to a network share.

I’d like to make a USB device that would appear as a usb drive to the tv... but instead of it reading from local flash - it would read from a network share. This would allow my tv browse my file server as if it was usb stick.

I’ve searched and haven’t found anyone doing anything like this - what would be involved - planning on using a rpi 2 as this sounds like it should be possible....

Any pointers anyone please? Thanks...

Snowbat

According to https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/71613/how-to-use-raspberry-pi-3-as-a-usb-gadget only the Raspberry Pi Zero, Zero W, and classic Pi model A/A+ have hardware that could be configured to do this.

A couple of helpful articles:
https://gist.github.com/gbaman/50b6cca61dd1c3f88f41
https://learn.adafruit.com/turning-your-raspberry-pi-zero-into-a-usb-gadget?view=all#other-modules (note that they had problems with Mass Storage mode)

Does your Samsung TV have AllShare? If so, you could put it on the network and use a DLNA server to share your media files to it. I use MediaTomb for this.