Ubee EVW32C port forwarding help

So, just in case anyone else is running into this—straight from the manufacturer's specs—you can't actually access the USB drive via an external IP address.
I ended up digging through my junk drawer and found this ancient Android stick, thinking I could repurpose it as a makeshift file server. Honestly, I was pretty stoked at first because it turns out even newer Samba share apps actually run on Android 4.2.2, which felt like a small miracle. But, the bad news... I still haven't been able to successfully connect to it from my phone or my laptop. I mean, I can see the device on the network, but it just won't let me log in when I try using my phone.

shadowviper12 said:So, just in case anyone else is running into this—straight from the manufacturer's specs—you can't actually access the USB drive via an external IP address.
I ended up digging through my junk drawer and found this ancient Android stick, thinking I could repurpose it as a makeshift file server. Honestly, I was pretty stoked at first because it turns out even newer Samba share apps actually run on Android 4.2.2, which felt like a small miracle. But, the bad news... I still haven't been able to successfully connect to it from my phone or my laptop. I mean, I can see the device on the network, but it just won't let me log in when I try using my phone.

Yeah, that's exactly what I figured.

shadowviper12 said:So, just in case anyone else is running into this—straight from the manufacturer's specs—you can't actually access the USB drive via an external IP address.
I ended up digging through my junk drawer and found this ancient Android stick, thinking I could repurpose it as a makeshift file server. Honestly, I was pretty stoked at first because it turns out even newer Samba share apps actually run on Android 4.2.2, which felt like a small miracle. But, the bad news... I still haven't been able to successfully connect to it from my phone or my laptop. I mean, I can see the device on the network, but it just won't let me log in when I try using my phone.

What exactly are you plugging that stick into? What even is this thing? How does it actually work?

Honestly, that thing is basically just a tiny little computer running iOS—it’s shaped like a chunky USB stick, if that makes sense. I just plug it directly into the HDMI port on my TV, and since it has two USB ports, I use one for power and the other to hook up a powered USB hub. That way, I can jam in my hard drives, a USB Ethernet adapter to keep everything wired up, and even a mouse while I’m testing things out. Once it actually starts behaving itself—and hey, let’s not get ahead of ourselves with that optimism...—I’ll probably just yank it out of the TV and tuck it away somewhere out of sight, mostly because my TV doesn't have an endless supply of HDMI ports. The cool part is that I can scale it up with extra drives if I need to, and I might eventually try to set it up so I can access everything remotely from outside the house, assuming I don't settle for just keeping it on the local network once I finally get it working.