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•

Sharing multimedia with friends and family. You can share MP3 files, pictures, and other

multimedia with local and remote users.

•

Sharing resources on your network. Store files in a central location so that you do not

have to power up a computer to perform local sharing. In addition, you can share files

between Macintosh, Linux, and PC computers by using the USB drive as a go-between.

•

Sharing files with offsite coworkers. Share files such as Word documents, PowerPoint

presentations, and text files with remote users.

A few common uses are described in the following sections.

Share 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.

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To share files with your friends and family:

1.

Insert your USB drive into the USB port on the wireless modem router either directly or

with a USB cable.

Computers on your local area network (LAN) can 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

Configure

USB Storage Advanced Settings

on page 80.

Store 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 family’s color printer is directly attached to the mother’s PC.

•

The daughter has some photos on her Macintosh computer that she wants to print.

•

Their computers are not visible to each other on the network.



To print her photos on the color printer:

1.

The daughter types

\\readyshare

in the address field of her web browser.

This gives her access to the USB drive in the router.

2.

She copies the photos from the Mac to the router USB drive.

3.

The mother uses a her web browser or Microsoft Networking to transfer the files from the

USB drive to her PC. Then she prints the files.

Share Large Files with Colleagues

Sending files larger than 5 MB can pose a problem for many e-mail systems. The router

allows you to share very large files such as PowerPoint presentations or .zip files with

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colleagues at another site. Rather than tying up their mail systems will large files, your

colleagues can use FTP to easily download shared files from the wireless modem router.

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To share files with a remote colleague:

1.

To protect your network, set up security. Create a user name and password for the

colleague with appropriate access.

2.

If you want to limit USB drive access to only read access, from the wireless modem router

USB Storage (Basic Settings) screen, click

Edit a Network folder

. In the

Write Access

field, select

admin

, and then click

Apply

.

Note:

The password for admin is the same one that you use to access the

wireless modem router. By default it is

password

.

3.

In the USB Storage (Advanced Settings) screen, select the check box next to

FTP via

Internet

. See

Configure USB Storage Advanced Settings

on page 80.

USB Storage Basic Settings

You can view or edit basic settings for the USB storage device attached to your wireless

modem router. On the wireless modem router main menu under USB, select

Basic Settings

:

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

.

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Network/device name:

Share name:

\\readyshare

\\readyshare\USB_Storage

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You can also type

\\readyshare

in the address field of your web browser. If you logged in to

the wireless modem router before you connected your USB device, you might not see your

USB device in the wireless modem router screens until you log out and then log in again.

Table 13.

USB Storage (Basic Settings)

Network/Device Name

The default is \\readyshare. This is the name used to access the

USB device connected to the wireless modem router.

Available

Network folders

Shared 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 network folder permissions and access controls.

• All-no password allows all users to access the network folder.

• admin uses the same password that you use to log in to the

wireless modem router main menu.

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.

Edit button

You can click the

Edit

button to edit the Available Network Folders

settings. See

Edit a Network Folder

on page 79.

Safely Remove USB Device

button

Click to safely remove the USB device attached to your wireless

modem router. See

Unmount a USB Drive

on page 82.

Fields and Buttons

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Edit 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 USB Storage

(Advanced Settings) screen:

You can use this screen to select a folder, to change the

Shared Name

, or to change

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 router main menu. By default it is

password

.

Note:

You have to click

Apply

for your changes to take effect.

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Configure USB Storage Advanced Settings

To configure advanced USB settings, from the router menu, under USB, select

Advanced

Settings

. The USB Storage (Advanced Settings) screen displays:

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.

Table 14.

USB Storage (Advanced Settings)

Fields

Description

Network Device Name

The default is readyshare. This is the name used to access the USB

device connected to the 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 setting, 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 setting, remote users can

access the USB drive through FTP over the Internet.

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