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Description of USB File Sharing settings
The table below contains a description of the settings on the USB File Sharing page :
Section
Description
Auto Share
This option is used to configure the Auto Sharing
feature of USB File Sharing. Auto Sharing enables
‘plug and play’ of USB drives into the Bright Box.
Select ‘Enable’ to allow auto sharing of USB drives.
Select ‘Disable’ to switch off the automatic sharing
of USB drives. You can still share drives with auto
sharing disabled by connecting a drive to the router
and configuring the sharing manually in the USB
device section.
Samba Function
This option is used to enable or disable file sharing
of the USB drive via the Samba protocol. Samba is a
cross-platform file sharing protocol supported on
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This option is
enabled by default on the Bright Box router.
Select ‘Enable’ to enable file sharing using the
Samba protocol. This setting is recommended for all
modern operating systems including Microsoft
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Select ‘Disable’ to switch off file sharing using the
Samba protocol. You will need to connect to the
USB drive using an alternative protocol such as FTP
or NFS.
Workgroup Name
This field is used to configure the Windows
Workgroup that the shared USB drive belongs to. By
default the workgroup associated with the USB
drive is called ‘Workgroup’. This is the standard
workgroup name for Windows XP (Professional),
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Windows Vista and Windows 7.
If you’ve changed your workgroup name in Windows,
you may need to change the Workgroup Name field
to match your Windows workgroup in order to
access the USB drive over the network.
User Name
This field displays the user name for each user
account for USB File Sharing. You can protect
access to a USB drive by requiring people to enter a
username and password when they access the drive.
You can configure the user account by clicking the
Add User link.
File Permissions
This field displays the file permission for each user
account for USB File Sharing. You can configure the
user account by clicking the Add User link.
If the field displays ‘Read & Write’, the user can both
read files from and write files to the USB drive.
If the field displays ‘Read Only’ the user can open
files or copy files on your USB drive. Files cannot be
deleted, modified to moved to the USB drive.
Configure
If a user account has been created via the Add
User link, you can click Edit to change the user
account settings or click Delete to remove the user
account.
Add User
Click the Add User link to create a new user
account. You will be directed to page where you can
enter a User Name, Password and set File
Permissions for the account.
Volume Name
If a USB drive is connected to the router, this field
will display the volume name assigned to the drive.
File System
If a USB drive is connected to the router, this field
will display the file system type of the connected
drive. FAT16 or FAT32 drives will display a value of
‘FAT’ while NTFS drives will display a value of ‘NTFS’.
Note that Apple Mac HFS or HFS+ file systems are
not currently supported by the Bright Box router.
Capacity
This field displays the total storage capacity of the
connected USB drive in Gigabytes (GB).
Free Space
This field displays the amount of free storage space
available on the connected USB drive in Gigabytes
(GB).
Configure
Click Share to add the USB to the NAS Shared List.
This will display a page that will allow you to
configure a Share Name and which user accounts
are assigned to a particular shared drive.
Click Remove to delete the USB drive from file
sharing configuration. Please note that if the drive is
still connected to the router, it will appear in the
USB device list again when the router is restarted.
Share Name
This field displays the name of the shared drive as it
appears in the Network, My Network Places or
Finder in your operating system. This value is
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configured when you click Share in the USB device
section.
Volume Name
This field displays the volume name of the shared
drive.
Available Users
This field displays the user account names
associated with the shared drive. You can configure
the users by clicking the Add User link. You can
add users to the shared drive by clicking the Edit
link in the NAS Shared List.
Configure
Click Edit to assign user accounts to the shared
drive and display the current shared name.
Click Delete to remove the shared drive from the
NAS Shared List. If you remove the drive, it will no
longer be accessible in your operating system.
How to add user account access to a USB drive.
In order to create individual user accounts with different levels of read/write access for a
shared USB drive, you must configure the drive sharing manually in the Advanced Set-Up >
USB File Sharing page. This requires disabling the ‘Auto Share’ feature on the router.
To add a user account to the shared drive:
1.
Login to the router’s admin pages.
2.
Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with
caution’ page.
3.
Click on USB File Sharing in the left hand navigation menu
4.
On the ‘Auto Share’ option select ‘Disable’
5.
Ensure that the ‘Samba function’ is set to ‘Enable’
6.
Windows users: Ensure that the ‘Workgroup Name’ matches the workgroup name on your
network (this is usually ‘Workgroup’):
7.
Click Save Settings:
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8.
In the user account section, click Add User:
9.
On the Edit User screen enter a ‘User Name’, ‘Password’ and select the ‘File
Permissions’ type you want to assign the user (Read & Write or Read Only) and click
Save Settings:
10.
In the USB device section, click Share to display the NAS Shared list page
11.
Optional: Change the Share Name for the drive (this is the name that appears in the
Network on Windows or Mac OS X) if you want to give it a new name. Please ensure that
the share name doesn’t contain any spaces.
12.
Tick the box next to the user account you created in step 9 and click Save Settings:
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13.
Now you can access your shared drive on your network by selecting the drive, and
entering the user name and password created in step 9 (screenshots below from
Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.7)

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