Sharing Photos With Friends And Family - NETGEAR WGT634U Reference Manual

Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Media Router WGT634U

Sharing Photos with Friends and Family

The 108 Mbps Wireless Media Router WGT634U allows you to create your own central storage
location for photos and multimedia. This eliminates the need to log in to (and pay for) an external
photo sharing site.
Sharing Photos With Friends and Family
Grandma
Friend
Computers Connected to the
USB Drive Over the Internet
Figure 5-1: Sharing photos with friends and family
Sharing files with your friends and family involves the following steps:
Using the 108 Mbps Wireless Media Router WGT634U configuration utility, assign a user
1.
name and password for each friend or family member.
Specify a share folder that the account can access.
2.
Decide whether the account should have read only or read and write privileges. You can assign
3.
read only access of the shared folder on the USB drive to remote friends and family members
such as Grandma.
Local family members (Mom, Dad, and Son) can use a Web browser or Microsoft Networking
4.
to access files on the USB drive. Local users have read and write privileges.
For more information on sharing photos with friends and family who are at another location, see
"Connecting to the USB Drive from a Remote Computer" on page
For more information on sharing photos with family on your local network, see
USB Drive from a Local Web Browser" on page 5-11
Your Home/Office Network" on page
5-2
Home Network
WGT634U
USB Drive
and "Connecting to the USB Drive From
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Dad
Son
Wireless Notebook
Computers
Computer
Printer
Mom
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Connecting a USB Drive to the Router