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Figure 4-42
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 clicking
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 4-43.
Figure 4-43
Media Server Setting
2. Click the
Start
button to start the media server, and then the screen will appear as shown in
Figure 4-44.
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Figure 4-44
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 4-45.
Figure 4-45
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:
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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 4-46.
Figure 4-46
Media Server Setting
4. Click the
Scan All
button to scan all the share folders immediately. You can also select the
Auto-scan
, at the 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 and the max share media files number is 100. If you want to
share a new folder when the number has reached 6, you can delete an existing share folder and
then add a new one.
4.9.4
Print Server
Choose menu “
USB Settings
→
Print Server
”, you can configure print server on this page as
shown below.
Figure 4-47 Pint Server Setting
There are three states of the print server, they are as follows:
¾
Online -
Indicates the print service has been turned on, and no user is using the print
services at present. You can click the "
Stop
" button to stop the print service.
¾
Offline -
Indicates the print service feature is disabled. You can click "
Start
" button to start the
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print service.
¾
Busy -
Indicates the print service has been turned on, but at this moment other users are
using print services.
4.9.5
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 4-48). 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 4-48
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 4-49.
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
.
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Figure 4-49
Add or Modify User Account
¾
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.
¾
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.
¾
Confirm Password -
Re-enter the password here.
¾
Storage Authority –
Choose
Read and Write
or
Read Only
from the drop-down list to
assign access authority of Storage Sharing to the user.
¾
FTP Access –
Choose
Yes
or
No
from the drop-down list to decide whether the user can
access FTP Server or not.
¾
Save
- You can click the
SAVE
button to save your settings.
¾
Back
- You can click the
Back
button to discard the settings and just go to the media server
configuration page.
)
Note:
1.
The two default user accounts cannot be deleted.
2.
Please restart the service for the new settings to take effect.
3.
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
\\192.168.0.1 /delete /yes
and press
Enter. (192.168.0.1 is your router's LAN IP address. If the LAN IP of the modem connected
with your router is 192.168.0.x, the default LAN IP of the Router will automatically switch from
192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.1 to avoid IP conflict; in this case, please try
net use \\192.168.1.1
/delete / yes
.)

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