I purchased the 1TB model around 2005. This was the time before wireless printers & cloud storage were as common place as they are now. It meant I, my daughters' & wife (all Windows) could all access shared documents. pictures & music & the printer.
But technology moves on. With advent of smart phones & tablets cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive/iCloud made much more sense & printers were wireless. So the Linkstation has sat on my desk plugged into the router & power but not turned on for years.
Now I don't know about you but I find unused but perfectly serviceable bit of kit, be they lap tops or NAS devices, offensive. As an aside the build quality of my old Dell laptop is far superior to my more modern but more powerful one. Anyway a few months ago & booted my laptop into Windows 10 & fired up the Linkstation. Apparently the Linkstation uses SMB1(?) to talk to Windows. At some point Microsoft disabled SMB1 & moved to SMB2 due to "security concerns". So basically it didn't work unless I enabled SMB1 on Windows 10 which is not recommended. I have also tried to get Linux Mint to talk to it to no avail after reading a number of threads.
So now we come to what I want to do.
- I would like to use the Linkstation as an ad hoc storage device for my Mint based laptop as a place to store such things as Timeshift backups.
- I do not need it to automount at boot time. I'm happy to do that manually as & when.
- If does not need to be shared with any other device linked to my home network.
- I have no need for Windows (my laptop is dual boot) to access it.
Any help will be appreciated.
Dave