TP-Link TL-WDR4300 Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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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.

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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.



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

.)

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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

There are four submenus under the Forwarding menu (shown in Figure 4-65):

Virtual Servers

,

Port Triggering

,

DMZ

and

UPnP

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

corresponding function.

4.12.1 Virtual Servers

Choose menu “

Forwarding

→

Virtual Servers

”, and then you can view and add virtual servers in

the next screen (shown in

Figure 4-66

). Virtual servers can be used for setting up public services

on your LAN. A virtual server is defined as a service port, and all requests from Internet to this

service port will be redirected to the computer specified by the server IP. Any PC that was used

for a virtual server must have a static or reserved IP address because its IP address may change

when using the DHCP function.

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Figure 4-66 Virtual Servers



Service Port

- The numbers of External Service Ports. You can enter a service port or a

range of service ports (the format is XXX – YYY; XXX is the Start port and YYY is the End

port).



Internal Port

- The Internal Service Port number of the PC running the service application.

You can leave it blank if the

Internal Port

is the same as the

Service Port

, or enter a

specific port number when

Service Port

is a single one.



IP Address

- The IP address of the PC running the service application.



Protocol

- The protocol used for this application, either

TCP

,

UDP

, or

All

(all protocols

supported by the Router).



Status

- The status of this entry, "Enabled" means the virtual server entry is enabled.



Common Service Port

- Some common services already exist in the drop-down list.



Modify

- To modify or delete an existing entry.

To setup a virtual server entry:

1.

Click the

Add New...

button. (pop-up

Figure 4-67)

2.

Select the service you want to use from the

Common Service Port

list. If the

Common

Service Port

menu does not list the service that you want to use, enter the number of the

service port or service port range in the

Service Port

field.

3.

Enter the IP address of the computer running the service application in the

IP Address

field.

4.

Select the protocol used for this application in the

Protocol

drop-down list, either

TCP

,

UDP

,

or

All

.

5.

Select the

Enabled

option in the

Status

drop-down list.

6.

Click the

Save

button.

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Figure 4-67 Add or Modify a Virtual Server Entry



Note:

It is possible that you have a computer or server that has more than one type of available service.

If so, select another service, and type the same IP address for that computer or server.

To modify or delete an existing entry:

1.

Find the desired entry in the table.

2.

Click

Modify

or

Delete

as desired on the

Modify

column.

Click the

Enable/ Disabled All

button to make all entries enabled/ disabled.

Click the

Delete All

button to delete all entries.

Click the

previous page.



Note:

If you set the service port of the virtual server as 80, you must set the Web management port on

System Tools

→

Remote Management

page to be any other value except 80 such as 8080.

Otherwise there will be a conflict to disable the virtual server.

4.12.2 Port Triggering

Choose menu “

Forwarding

→

Port Triggering

”, you can view and add port triggering in the next

screen (shown in Figure 4-68). Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet

games, video conferencing, Internet telephoning and so on. Port Triggering is used for some of

these applications that cannot work with a pure NAT Router.

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