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Shared -

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

shared, you can click the

Disable

to stop sharing the volume; when volume is

non-shared, you can click the

Enable

button to share the volume.

Click the

Start

button to start the Network Sharing service.

Click the

Stop

button to stop the Network Sharing service.

Click the

Eject Disk

button to safely remove the USB storage device that is connected to USB

port. This takes the drive offline. A message (as shown in Figure 4-35) will appear on your web

browser when it is safe to detach the USB disk.

Figure 4-35

Safe Unplug Message

Click the

Rescan

button to start a new scan.

Follow the instructions below to set up your Router as a file server:

1.

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

2.

Click the

Rescan

button to find the USB drive that has been attached to the Router.

3.

Click the

Start

button to start the Storage Sharing service.

4.

Click the

Enable

button under

Shared

to enable the disk to share.

5.

Click the

Open the disk

to visit the sharing disk.

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Note:

1.

The Router cannot automatically locate new USB drive. You have to click the

Rescan

button

manually to display a list of volumes and information about them.

2.

The new settings will not take effect until you restart the service.

3.

To unplug the USB drive, click

Eject Disk

button first. Simply pulling USB drive out of the

USB port can cause damage to the device and loss of data.

4.

Mounted volumes are subject to the 8-volume limit. So you cannot access more than 8

volumes on the USB storage device.

4.8.2

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.

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Figure 4-36 FTP Server Configuration

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Service Status -

Indicates the FTP Server's current status.

¾

Internet Access -

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

Otherwise, select disable to only allow local network access.

¾

Service Port -

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

¾

Name

-

This folder's display name.

¾

Partition

-

The name of the partition is displayed.

¾

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 WAN 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 4-36.

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Figure 4-37 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.

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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.

4.8.3

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.

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Figure 4-38

Media Server Setting

¾

Server Name

– The name of this Media Server.

¾

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.

¾

Name

- The display name of this folder.

¾

File System

- The file system type on the partition can be FAT32 or NTFS.

¾

Folder

- The real full path of the specified folder.

¾

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 4-39.

Figure 4-39

Media Server Setting

2. Click the

Start

button to sta

screen will appear as shown in

rt the media server, and then the

Figure 4-40.

Figure 4-40

Media Server Setting

3. Click the

Add share folder

arch path of media server. The

button to specify a folder as the se

screen will then appear as shown in Figure 4-41.

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Figure 4-41

Add New Folder

¾

Display Name

- You can enter a display name for the share folder.

¾

Share entire partition

- You can select this option and then the folders contained in

this partition will all be shared.

¾

Folder Location

- Displays the location of this folder.

¾

Select

- You can select this option to share the specified folder.

¾

Folder

- Name of folders that is in current path.

¾

upper

- You can click the

upper

button to get into the upper folder.

¾

Save

- You can click the

Save

button to save your settings and the page will be

redirected to the media server configuration page.

¾

Back

- You can click the

Back

button to discard the settings and just go to the media

server configuration page.

To add a new share folder for your media server, please follow the instructions below:

a)

Select the

Share entire partition

or a specified folder option.

b)

Enter the display name of the share folder in

Display Name

edit box.

c)

Click the

Save

button to save the configuration and the page will be redirected to the

media server configuration page as shown in Figure 4-42.