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4.10 USB Settings

Figure 4-49 The USB Settings menu

There are six submenus under the USB Settings menu (shown in Figure 4-49):

USB Mass

Storage

,

User Accounts

,

Storage Sharing

,

FTP Server

,

Media Server

and

Print Server

and.

Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding functions.

4.10.1

USB Mass Storagre

The

USB Mass Storage

page provides the basic information about the USB mass storage device.

Click

the

Refresh

button to update this page.

Figure 4-50 User Account Management

4.10.2

User Accounts

You can specify the user name and password for Storage Sharing and FTP Server users on this

page. Storage Sharing users can use Internet Explorer to access files on the USB drive. FTP

Server users can log into the FTP Server via FTP Client.

The default user account is

admin

. It has read/write access to Storage Sharing and can access

FTP Server.

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Figure 4-51 User Account Management

Only Administrator can use a Web browser to transfer the files from a PC to the Writable shared

volume on the USB drive.

To add a new user account, please follow the steps below:

1.

Choose the

Index

from the drop-down list..

2.

Self-define a

User Name

.

3.

Enter the password in the

Password

field.

4.

Re-enter the password in the

Confirm Password

field.

5.

Click

Set

to make your settings take effect.



New Username -

Type the user name that you want to give access to the USB drive. The

user name must be composed of alphanumeric symbols not exceeding 15 characters in

length.



New Password -

Enter the password in the Password field. The password must be

composed of alphanumeric symbols not exceeding 15 characters in length. For security

purposes, the password for each user account is not displayed.



Confirm Password -

Re-enter the password here.



Note:

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1.

Please restart the service for the new settings to take effect.

2.

If you cannot use the new user name and password to access the shares, press

Windows

logo + R

to open the Run dialog box and type

net use

\\192.168.1.1 /delete /yes

and press

Enter. (192.168.1.1 is your router's LAN IP address. If the LAN IP of the modem connected

with your router is 192.168.1.x, the default LAN IP of the router will automatically switch from

192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.1 to avoid IP conflict; in this case, please try

net use

\\192.168.0.1

/delete / yes

.)

4.10.3

Storage Sharing

Choose menu “

USB Settings

→

Storage Sharing

”, you can configure a USB disk drive attached

to the router and view volume and share such properties as share name, directory, user access,

and status on this page as shown below.

Figure 4-52 Storage Sharing



Server Status -

Indicates the Storage Sharing server's current status. You can click the

Enable

button to start the Storage Sharing service and click the

Disable

button to stop it.



Anonymous access to all volumes –

Check this box to allow users to access to all

volumes without username or password



Shared Name -

The volume name of the USB drive the users have access to.



Directory -

The directory of the shared folder.



User Access –

Indicates user access of the shared folder. F stands for fully access, R

stands for read-only and N stands for no-access.

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

Status -

Indicates the shared or non-shared status of the volume.



Edit –

Click

Edit

to edit the entry.

To add a new folder, follow the instructions below.

1.

Click

Add New Folder

in Figure 4-52.

Figure 4-53 Add or Modify Share Folder

2.

Enter display name of the share folder in

Shared Name

filed.

3.

Click the

Browse

button to select the folder which you want to share.

4.

Click the

Apply

button to save the settings.



Note:

1.

The max share folders number is 10. If you want to share a new folder when the number has

reached 10, you can delete an existing share folder and then add a new one.

2.

If you want to change the FTP settings, you need to restart FTP Server to make the changes

take effect.

Click the

Enable Selected

button to make the selected entries enabled

Click the

Disable Selected

button to make the selected entries disabled.

Click the

Delete Selected

button to delete the selected entries.

Click the

Apply

button to make the settings take effect.

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4.10.4

FTP Server

Choose menu “

USB Settings

→

FTP Server

”, you can create an FTP server that can be accessed

from the Internet or your local network.

Figure 4-54 FTP Server Configuration



Server Status -

Indicates the FTP Server's current status.



Internet Access -

Select enable to allow access of the FTP server from the Internet.

Otherwise, select disable to only allow local network access.



Internet Address

- The WAN IP address of this router,



Service Port -

Enter the FTP Port number to use. The default is 21.

To set up your FTP Server, please follow the instructions below:

1.

Plug an external USB hard disk drive or USB flash drive into this router.

2.

Click the

Enable/Disable

radio box to enable/disable Internet access to FTP from Internet

port.

3.

Specify a port for the FTP server to use (The default port number is 21).

4.

The

Internet Address

displays the WAN IP address of this router, so that other users can

access FTP via this address.

5.

If WAN type is PPPoE/PPTP/L2TP, two connections will be available. Therefore, users can

access FTP server via two connections. Users in a private LAN can access ftp server via

Public Address

while Internet users can access ftp server via

Internet Address

.