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Belgacom BBOX2: attach an usb disk and use it in your network

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Written by Schelstraete Bart

Monday, 20 July 2009 19:21

The BBOX2 modem, which you get if you ordered Belgacom TV the last 6 months, has an USB device.

How, for a normal user that USB device is quite useless. You can use it to charge your IPOD for example. But, actually, you can also use that as a kind of 'file server'. You can attach a simple usb stick to it for example, and browse the files over the network.

I will explain you how to do that, but doing that is at your own risk and is NOT supported by Belgacom.

First plug your USB device in the BBOX2 modem.
Login on the modem, but using the telnet command. (not the webinterface)
- telnet 192.168.1.1
Once logged in, switch to command line mode.You can do this by typing: 'shell':
- shell
Now you need to mount the device. Because it's not supported, there is no auto mount.
- mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb

Voila... that's it.

Now, everybody on the network, can browse to http://192.168.1.1:631 to get data from the USB device, using a web browser.

In windows, you can just use internal explorer to view the files. To edit (add/remove/etc) files, open internet explorer and go to File -> Open -> give http://192.168.1.1:631 and select 'open as webfolder'. Then you will see the directory as a normal folder.

NOTE: You can NOT mount all disk types, as this is not a full blown operating system. For the moment I've tested usb disks with FAT filesystem, and that worked. Didn't try FAT32 yet. NTTS is out of the question.

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