(October 30, 2021 at 5:58 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(October 30, 2021 at 5:51 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: At present I have port forwarding set up but not a static IP address. My nerdy mate who set up the router insisted. Are they absolutely needed?
It might. SMB and NAT don't play nicely. However, you've likely got a layer of NAT with both static and dynamic IPs, and your old config took that into account.
(October 30, 2021 at 5:51 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: So I'm thinking the error is likely to be in the LAN or Wifi settings. Be grateful if you can suggest anything else I should look at.
There's a lot of things that could be involved, which is why redoing things from scratch is usually faster if you don't know what you're doing.
I'd need to know a lot more information to make more specific suggestions, and frankly, solving problems like this via forum or chat is a long drawn-out process that I don't intend to engage in.
I followed your suggestions and found an article about setting up Samba. It's not going well at present because the router won't let me give the devices read/write authority. I shall persevere, stopping for coffee when I am tempted to destroy the router, which is just about where I'm at. Nothing makes me feel stupid quicker than a computer and peripherals.
Oh, I've just done a hard reset, and everything else is just dandy. I have internet and the VPN is fine( I set up DDNS because there was a message in yellow suggesting I do so. I've set it up for FTP, so I guess I could do that as a work around. I'll leave that as a last resort. I prefer solutions rather than work arounds because then I actually learn.