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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.
4.10.3 Media Server
Choose menu “
USB Settings
→
Media Server
”, you can create media server that allows you to
share stored content with other computers and devices on your home network and on the Internet.
Figure 4-57 Media Server Setting
Server Name -
The name of this Media Server.
Server Status
- Indicates the Media Server’s current status, started or stopped. You can
click the
Start
button to start the Media Server and click the
Stop
button to stop it.
Name
- The display name of this folder.
File System
- The file system type on the partition can be FAT32 or NTFS.
Folder
- The real full path of the specified folder.
Delete
- You can delete the share folder by click
Delete
.
To set up your media server, please follow the instructions below:
1.
Plug an external USB hard disk drive or USB flash drive into this Router, and then the screen
will appear as shown in Figure 4-58.
Figure 4-58 Media Server Setting
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2. Click the
Start
button to start the media server, and then the screen will appear as shown in
Figure 4-59.
Figure 4-59 Media Server Setting
3. Click the
Add share folder
button to specify a folder as the search path of media server. The
screen will then appear as shown in Figure 4-60.
Figure 4-60 Add New Folder
Display Name
- You can enter a display name for the share folder.
Share entire partition
- Choose this option and then the folders contained in this partition
will all be shared.
Folder Location
- Displays the location of this folder.
Select
- Check the radio button to select the folder to share.
Folder
- Displays folders that are in current path.
Upper
- Click this button to get into the upper folder.
Save
- Click this button to save your settings and the page will be redirected to the media
server configuration page.
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Back
- Click this button to discard the settings and just go to the media server configuration
page.
4. Click the
Scan All button
to scan all the share folders immediately. You can also select the
Auto-scan
, at same time, select an auto scan interval time by drop-down list. In this case, the
media server will auto scan the share folders.
Note:
The max share folders number is 6. If you want share a new folder when the number has been
reached to be 6, you can delete a share folder and then add a new one.
4.10.4 Print Server
Choose menu “
USB Settings
→
Print Server
”, you can configure print server on this page as
shown below.
Figure 4-61 Pint Server Setting
There are two states of the print server, they are as follows:
Online -
Indicates the print service has been turned on, and no user is using the print service
at present. You can click the "
Stop
" button to stop the print service.
Offline -
Indicates the print service feature is disabled. You can click "
Start
" button to start the
print service.
4.10.5 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.
There are two default user accounts that can access the Storage Sharing and FTP Server. They
are Administrator and Guest (as shown in Figure 4-62). Administrator has read/write access to
Storage Sharing and can access FTP Server while Guest has read-only access to Storage
Sharing and cannot access FTP Server.
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Figure 4-62 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.
Click
Add New User
button, and the screen will appear as shown in Figure 4-63.
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.
Choose the Storage Authority from the drop-down list,
Read and Write
or
Read Only
.
6.
Choose FTP Access from the drop-down list,
Yes
or
No
.
Figure 4-63 Add or Modify User Account
User Name -
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.
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.
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Confirm Password -
Re-enter the password here.
Storage Authority –
Choose
Read and Write
or
Read Only
from the drop-down list to
assign access authority of Storage Sharing to the user.
FTP Access –
Choose
Yes
or
No
from the drop-down list to decide whether the user can
access FTP Server or not.
Save
- You can click the
SAVE
button to save your settings.
Back
- You can click the
Back
button to discard the settings and just go to the media server
configuration page.
Note:
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
.)
4.11 NAT
Choose “
NAT
”, and you can enable or disable the NAT function.
Figure 4-64 NAT
4.12 Forwarding
Figure 4-65 The Forwarding menu

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