USB Storage

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3.

Select

Volume Scheme

and set the number of partitions you would like to use.

4.

Click

Options

, and the Partition options appear.

5.

Select

GUID Partition Table

or

Master Boot Record

(MBR).

6.

Click

OK

.

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6.

ReadySHARE Printer

ReadySHARE Printer is compatible with Macs and Windows PCs. 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 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

19).

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.

After you have installed the utility, select the language.

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6.

The first time you access the utility, you are asked to 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).