Hi,

Issue: I have a ArcherC9 v5 and when I shut off DHCP on the router I can no longer see the USB drive (external WD drive) as a shared drive in windows network. 

My smart TVs and such can see it as a source of media. I can access the drive as an FTP through windows although the transfer is painfully slow. I can access the drive through \\tplinkwifi.net and I can map one of the subfolders as a shared drive in windows (but not the root directory :( ). But I can't see the share in network in windows.

Unfortunately, I had to shut DHCP off on the C9 when I set up a P-Hole DNS server as the C9 wouldn't let me specify a DNS server on the same subnet. Now the Pi is doing DNS and DHCP and everything is working perfectly, save this one issue with the USB drive on the C9. 

I've tried mounting/unmounting the drive, but that didn't help. 

Is this a limitation on the C9? Is there some requirement that DHCP be on to have the drive show up as a share? I couldn't find anything in the manual. 

Thanks