plug hard rive into router
In the router html interface
“Advanced”/”USB Port” share with samba username=xxx password=yyy device = defaulted to usb1_1 directory = Router rights=read+write
remember to enable Samba (tick box)
On network computer (pi)
sudo mkdir /mnt/Router (if it doesn’t exist)
sudo chown -R pi:pi /mnt/Router
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,password=yyy,uid=pi //192.168.sss.fff/xxx /mnt/Router
BACKUP /etc/fstab to fstab.bak THEN sudo gedit /etc/fstab and add line :
//192.168.1.fff /mnt/Router username=xxx,password=yyy,uid=pi,gid=pi 0 0 sudo mount -a (to then run the fstab file) (add it to bottom of .bashrc file to automount as boot of fstab occurs before network available.