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Subject: Re: ZyXEL modem - attaching USB drive
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<0001HW.23B6534E00007474700004FD92EF@news.eternal-september.org>,
Martin S Taylor <correspondence@mRaErMtOiVnEsTtHaIySlor.com> wrote:

> > > In the Finder I connect to server, using the parameters smb:///mnt/usb1_1
> > > (which is what the router tells me to) and everything goes through
> > > smoothly.
> > > Except I can't see the disk anywhere. It should just appear on the
> > > desktop, no? Because it doesn't.
> >
> > check if connected servers is ticked in finder->preferences.
> 
> I'm not a *complete* idiot.

i didn't say you were.

looking at the user manual, they explicitly say mac os x support for
some features, although not for file sharing, but the very next section
they do for printer sharing.

the version of the manual i found is from 2013, which is old enough
that i suspect the device only supports smb1 which macos no longer
does. you could test this with a mac running an older version of mac
os, but i forget when it changed (10.9/10.10 era).

also try:
cifs://mnt/usb1_1
smb://x.x.x.x 
smb://x.x.x.x/usb1_1
cifs://x.x.x.x 
cifs://x.x.x.x/usb1_1

where x.x.x.x is the ip address of the modem.