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Sharing Photos with Friends and Family
You can create your own central storage location for photos and multimedia. This eliminates
the need to log in to (and pay for) an external photo sharing site.
To share files with your friends and family:
1.
Insert the USB drive into the N300 wireless modem router USB port either directly or
with a USB cable.
Computers on your local area network (LAN) can automatically access this USB drive
using a Web browser or Microsoft Networking.
2.
If you want to specify read only access, or to allow access from the Internet, see
Configuring
USB Storage Advanced Settings
on page
69 for information.
Storing Files in a Central Location for Printing
This scenario is for a family that has one high-quality color printer directly attached to a PC,
but not shared on the local area network (LAN). This family does not have a print server:
The daughter has some photos on her Macintosh computer that she wants to print.
The mother has a photo-capable color printer directly attached to her PC, but not shared
on the network.
The mother’s and daughter’s computers are not visible to each other on the network.
How can the daughter print her photos on the color printer attached to her mother’s PC? This
is where the USB drive on the N300 wireless modem router can save you time and effort.
1.
The daughter accesses the USB drive by typing
\\readyshare
in the address field of her
Web browser. Then she copies the photos to the USB drive.
2.
The mother uses a her Web browser or Microsoft Networking to transfer the files from the
USB drive to the PC. Then she prints the files.
Sharing Large Files with Colleagues
Sending files that are larger than 5 MB can pose a problem for many email systems. The
N300 wireless modem router allows you to share very large files such as PowerPoint
presentations or .zip files with colleagues at another site. Rather than tying up their mail
systems with large files, your colleagues can use FTP to easily download shared files from
the N300 wireless modem router.
Sharing files with a remote colleague involves the following steps:
1.
To protect your network, set up appropriate security. Create a user name and password
for the colleague with appropriate access.
2.
If you want to limit USB drive access to read only access, from the N300 wireless modem
router USB Storage (Basic Settings) screen, click
Edit a Network folder
. In the Write
Access field, select
Edit
, and then click
Apply
.
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Note:
The password for admin is the same one that you use to access the
N300 wireless modem router. By default it is
password
.
3.
Enable FTP through the Internet in the USB Storage (Advanced Settings) screen. See
Configuring USB Storage Advanced Settings
on page
69.
USB Storage Basic Settings
You can view or edit basic settings for the USB storage device attached to your N300
wireless modem router. On the N300 wireless modem router main menu, select
USB
Storage > Basic Settings
. The following screen displays:
Figure 43.
By default, the USB storage device is available to all computers on your local area network
(LAN). To access your USB device from this screen, you can click the network/device name or
the share name.
Figure 44.
You can also type
\\readyshare
in the address field of your Web browser.
Network/Device Name:
Share Name:
\\readyshare
\\readyshare\USB_Storage
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Note:
If you logged in to the N300 wireless modem router before you
connected your USB device, you might not see your USB device in
the N300 wireless modem router screens until you log out and then
log back in again.
The following table explains the fields and buttons in this screen.
Editing a Network Folder
This process is the same from either the USB Storage (Basic Settings) screen or the USB
Storage (Advanced Settings) screen. Click the
Edit
button to open the Edit Network Folder
screen:
Fields and Buttons
Description
Network Device Name
The default is \\readyshare. This is the name used to access
the USB device connected to the N300 wireless modem
router.
Available Network
Folders
Folder Name
Full path of the used by the network folder.
Volume Name
Volume name from the storage device (either USB drive or
HDD).
Total/Free Space
Shows the current utilization of the storage device.
Share Name
• You can click the name shown, or you can type it in the
address field of your Web browser.
• If Not Shared is shown, then the default share has been
deleted and no other share for the root folder exists. Click
the link to change this setting.
Read/Write Access
• Shows the permissions and access controls on the
network folder:
• All - no password allows all users to access the network
folder.
• admin uses the same password that you use to log in to
the N300 wireless modem router main menu.
Edit button
You can click the
Edit
button to edit the Available Network
Folders settings. See
Editing a Network Folder
on page
68.
Safely Remove USB Device button
Click to safely remove the USB device attached to your
N300 wireless modem router. See
Unmounting a USB Drive
on page
72.
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Figure 45.
You can use this screen to select a folder, to change the share name, or to change the read
access or write access from
All - no password
to
admin
. The password for admin
is the same
one that is used to log in to the N300 wireless modem router main menu. By default it is
password
.
Note:
You must click
Apply
in order for your changes to take effect.
Configuring USB Storage Advanced Settings
To configure advanced USB settings, from the main menu, select
USB > Advanced
Settings
. The USB Storage (Advanced Settings) screen displays:
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Figure 46.
You can use this screen to specify access to the USB storage device. The following table
explains the fields and buttons in the USB Storage (Advanced Settings) screen.
Fields
Description
Network Device Name
The default is readyshare. This is the name used to access the
USB device connected to the N300 wireless modem router from
your computer.
Workgroup
If you are using a Windows Workgroup rather than a domain, the
workgroup name is displayed here.
Access Method
Network Connection
Enabled by default, this allows all users on the LAN to have
access to the USB drive.
HTTP
Disabled by default. If you enable this setting, you can type
http://readyshare
to access the USB drive.
HTTP (via Internet)
Disabled by default. If you enable this settings, remote users can
type
http://readyshare
to access the USB drive over the
Internet.
FTP
Disabled by default.
FTP (via Internet)
Disabled by default. If you enable this settings, remote users can
access the USB drive through FTP over the Internet.
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