Double-clicking a file in a shared USB opens a new Edge tab
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I'm trying to share a USB drive from the router, and have it mostly working. The drive is plugged into the router, and I choose the folders to share. I added it a sa network drive on my PC (Windows 11), and can see th efolders and files.
However, if I double-click a file, then instead of opening the file with the default program, Edge pops up with a new tab. It doesn't even load the file into Edge, it just opens a new tab.
Anyone any idea why this happens? I want it to behave like any other folder, ie double-clicking a file wold open it in the default program.
Thanks
The router's storage not showing up under "Network" is quite normal, but it should work when typing in the router's address.
The last idea I have is to try if enabling the SMB 1.0 protocol in Windows would make any difference. It's possible that the C1200 is so old that is doesn't support SMB 2.0 or higher. But the old SMB 1.0 is disabled in newer versions of Windows by default.
@Yossu Don't know if it's relevant, but I forgot to mention that if I look in the Network section in File Explorer, I see the USB shared under Media devices (I changed the Network/Media Server Name to Stuff)...
If I doube-click that, it opens the router web page. If I right-click it, I only have the options of opening media player or the web page. I expected to be able to browse the folders, but couldn't. That's why I had to add a network drive using ftp://etc
Don't know if it adds anything, but here are the settings in the router page (I just disabled the FTP option to see if it made any difference, was enabled by default)...
...and here is what I see in the Network node in File Explorer...
As I said above, if I enter \\Stuff or \\192.168.0.1 in the File Explorer address bar, I get a message saying Windows cannot access the drive.
Thanks again
The router's storage not showing up under "Network" is quite normal, but it should work when typing in the router's address.
The last idea I have is to try if enabling the SMB 1.0 protocol in Windows would make any difference. It's possible that the C1200 is so old that is doesn't support SMB 2.0 or higher. But the old SMB 1.0 is disabled in newer versions of Windows by default.