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Figure 4-55 FTP Server Configuration



Service 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.



Service Port -

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



Name

-

This folder's display name.



Partition

-

The volume that the folder resides. Volume 1-8 is mapping to USB port1, and

Volume 9-16 is mapping to USB port2.



Folder

-

The real full path of the specified folder.

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

.

6.

Click the

Start

button to start the ftp server.

To add a new folder, follow the instructions below.

1.

Click

Add New Folder

in Figure 4-55.

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Figure 4-56 Add or Modify Share Folder

2.

Select the

Share entire partition

or a specific folder option.

3.

Enter display name of the share folder in

Display Name

filed.

4.

Click the

Save

button to save the settings.

You can click the

upper

button to go to the upper folder.

You can click the

Back

button to return to the ftp server configuration page.



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.

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.

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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

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.

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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.



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.

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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 can not access FTP Server.

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.