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5.
Click
Apply
to save your settings.
If you want to work with another USB device, first, click the
Safely Remove USB Device
button for the currently connected USB device. Connect the other USB device, and repeat
this process.
Connect to the USB Drive from a Remote Computer
To connect to the USB drive from remote computers with a web browser, you have to use the
router’s Internet port IP address. If you are using Dynamic DNS, you can type the DNS name
rather than the IP address. You can view the router’s Internet IP address from the dashboard
on the Basic Home screen or the Advanced Home screen.
Access the Router’s USB Drive Remotely Using FTP
To connect to the router’s USB drive using a web browser:
1.
Connect to the router by typing
ftp://
and the Internet port IP address in the address
field of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, for example:
If you are using Dynamic DNS, you can type the DNS name rather than the IP address.
2.
Type the account name and password for the account that has access rights to the USB
drive.
The user name (account name) for All – no password is
guest
.
The directories of the USB drive that your account has access to display, for example,
share/partition1/directory1. You can now read and copy files from the USB directory.
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6.
ReadySHARE Printer
ReadySHARE Printer is compatible with Mac and Windows computers. It lets you connect a
USB printer to the router’s USB port, and access it wirelessly.
This chapter contains the following sections:
ReadySHARE Printer
USB Control Center Utility
For more information about ReadySHARE features, visit
www.netgear.com/readyshare
.
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ReadySHARE Printer
You can connect a USB printer to the router’s USB port, and share it among Windows and
Mac computers on the network.
To set up ReadySHARE Printer:
1.
Connect the USB printer to the router’s USB port with a USB printer cable.
2.
Install the USB printer driver software
on each computer
that shares the printer. If you do not
have the printer driver, contact the printer manufacturer to find and download the most
recent printer driver software.
3.
On each computer that will share the printer, download the NETGEAR USB Control Center
utility.
The NETGEAR USB utility has a Mac version and a Windows version, which you can
access in two different ways:
From the ReadySHARE Printer area of the website you reach using this URL:
www.netgear.com/readyshare
From the ReadySHARE tab of the NETGEAR genie app. (See
NETGEAR genie App
and Mobile genie App
on page 18.)
Note:
You
have to
install this utility before you can use the ReadySHARE
Printer feature. For the ReadySHARE Printer feature to work, this
utility has to be running in the background.
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4.
Follow the instructions to install the NETGEAR USB Control Center utility
.
5.
Select the language.
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6.
The first time you access the utility, select the printer and click the
Connect
button.
Once the connection is established, the status changes to Manually connected by
xxx
.
You can click the
Disconnect
button at any time to release the connection. The status
then changes to Available.
After you click the Connect button once on each computer in the network, the utility on each of
them handles the printing queue and handling. The status of the printer is Available on all of
the computers.
When the status is Available, you can use the USB printer.
When the status is Manually connected by
xxx
, only the
xxx
computer can use the
printer. Other network devices must wait until the
xxx
computer has released the
connection, or until the connection times out (the default time-out value is 30
seconds).

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