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7.
Access the Router’s USB Drive
Through the Internet
With Dynamic DNS, you can use the Internet to access a USB hard drive attached to the router’s
USB port router when you’re not home. This chapter includes the following sections:
•
Access the USB Drive Through the Internet
•
Dynamic DNS
•
Your Personal FTP Server
•
Set Up Your Personal FTP Server
For information about how to connect the USB drive and specify its settings, see
Chapter 6,
Share USB Drives Attached to the Router
.
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Access the USB Drive Through the Internet
You can access the USB drive through the Internet when you’re not home.
To access the USB drive from a remote computer:
1.
Launch a web browser on a computer that is not on your home network.
2.
Connect to your home router:
•
To connect with Dynamic DNS, type the DNS name.
To use a Dynamic DNS account, you must enter the account information in the
Dynamic DNS screen. See
Dynamic DNS
on page
84.
•
To connect without Dynamic DNS, type the router’s Internet port IP address.
You can view the router’s Internet IP address on the BASIC Home screen.
You can use FTP to share files on a USB drive connected to the router.
Set Up FTP Access Through the Internet
To set up FTP access:
1.
Launch an Internet browser from a computer or wireless device that is connected to the
network.
2.
Type
or
.
A login screen displays.
3.
Enter the router user name and password.
The user name is
admin
. The default password is
password
. The user name and
password are case-sensitive.
The BASIC Home screen displays.
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4.
Select
ADVANCED > USB Storage >
Advanced Settings
.
5.
Select the
FTP (via Internet)
check box.
6.
Click the
Apply
button.
Your changes are saved.
7.
To limit access to the admin user, click the
Edit
button.
8.
In the
Read Access
list, select
admin
.
9.
In the
Write Access
list, select
admin
.
10.
Click the
Apply
button.
Your changes are saved.
Access the USB Drive Through the Internet with FTP
You must first set up FTP through Internet access as described in
Set Up FTP Access
Through the Internet
on page
82.
To access the USB drive with FTP from a remote computer:
1.
Do one of the following:
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•
To download, launch an Internet browser.
•
To upload, use an FTP client such as filezilla.
2.
Type
ftp://
and the Internet port IP address in the address field of the browser.
For example, type
.
If you are using Dynamic DNS, type the DNS name.
For example, type
.
3.
When prompted, log in:
•
To log in as admin, in the
user name
field, type
admin
and in the
password
field,
type the same password that you use to log in to the router.
•
To log in as guest, in the
user name
field, enter
guest
.
The guest user name does not require a password. To restrict access to the USB
drive, you can specify that only the admin user can access it. See
Control Access to
the USB Drive
on page
73.
The files and folders of the USB drive that your account can access displays. For
example, you might see
share/partition1/directory1
.
Dynamic DNS
Internet service providers (ISPs) assign numbers called IP addresses to identify each
Internet account. Most ISPs use dynamically assigned IP addresses. This means that the IP
address can change at any time. You can use the IP address to access your network
remotely, but most people don’t know what their IP addresses are or when this number
changes.
To make it easier to connect, you can get a free account with a Dynamic DNS service that
lets you use a domain name to access your home network. To use this account, you must set
up the router to use Dynamic DNS. Then the router notifies the Dynamic DNS service
provider whenever its IP address changes. When you access your Dynamic DNS account,
the service finds the current IP address of your home network and automatically connects
you.
If your ISP assigns a private WAN IP address (such as 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x), the Dynamic
DNS service does not work because private addresses are not routed on the Internet.
Your Personal FTP Server
With your customized free URL, you can use FTP to access your network when you aren’t
home through Dynamic DNS. To set up your FTP server, you must register for a free
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NETGEAR Dynamic DNS (DDNS) service account and specify the account settings. See
Set
Up a New Dynamic DNS Account
on page
85.
FTP Directory:
FTP: /‘custom name’.mynetgear.com
FTP Directory: FTP: /‘custom name’.mynetgear.com
FTP Directory:
FTP://‘custom name’.mynetgear.com
Figure 10. You can access your network through the Internet when you’re not home
Note:
The router supports only basic DDNS, and the login and password
might not be secure. You can use DDNS with a VPN tunnel for a
secure connection. For more information, see
Chapter 7, Access the
Router’s USB Drive Through the Internet
.
Set Up a New Dynamic DNS Account
To set up Dynamic DNS and register for a free NETGEAR account:
1.
Launch an Internet browser from a computer or wireless device that is connected to the
network.
2.
Type
or
.
A login screen displays.
3.
Enter the router user name and password.
The user name is
admin
. The default password is
password
. The user name and
password are case-sensitive.
The BASIC Home screen displays.

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