Sharing Photos With Friends And Family; Sharing Large Files With Colleagues - NETGEAR DGN3500 User Manual

N300 Wireless Gigabit ADSL2+ Modem Router DGN3500

Sharing Photos with Friends and Family

You can 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.
To share files with your friends and family:
Insert your USB drive into the USB port on the wireless modem router either directly or
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with a USB cable.
Computers on your local area network (LAN) can automatically access this USB drive
using a Web browser or Microsoft Networking.
If you want to specify read only access, or to allow access from the Internet, see
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USB Storage Advanced Settings
Storing Files in a Central Location for Printing
This scenario is for a family that has one high quality color printer directly attached to a PC,
but not shared on the local area network (LAN). This family does not have a print server:
The daughter has some photos on her Macintosh computer that she wants to print.
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The mother has a photo-capable color printer directly attached to her PC, but not shared
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on the network.
The mother and daughter's computers are not visible to each other on the network.
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How can the daughter print her photos on the color printer attached to her mother's PC? This
is where the USB drive on the wireless modem router can save you time and effort.
The daughter accesses the USB drive by typing \\readyshare in the address field of her
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Web browser. Then she copies the photos to the USB drive.
The mother uses a her Web browser or Microsoft Networking to transfer the files from the
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USB drive to the PC. Then she prints the files.

Sharing Large Files with Colleagues

Sending files that are larger than 5 MB can pose a problem for many e-mail systems. The
wireless modem router allows you to share very large files such as PowerPoint presentations
or ZIP files with colleagues at another site. Rather than tying up their mail systems with large
files, your colleagues can use FTP to easily download shared files from the wireless modem
router.
Sharing files with a remote colleague involves the following steps:
To protect your network, set up appropriate security. Create a user name and password
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for the colleague with appropriate access.
If you want to limit USB drive access to only Read Access, from the wireless modem router
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USB Storage (Basic Settings) screen, click Edit a Network folder. In the Write Access field,
select admin, and then click Apply.
on page 84.
USB Storage
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Configuring