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N300 Wireless Dual Band ADSL2+ Modem Router DGND3300v2 User Manual

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:

1. Insert the USB drive into the N300 wireless modem router USB port either directly or

with a USB cable.

Computers on your local area network (LAN) can automatically access this USB drive

using a Web browser or Microsoft Networking.

2. If you want to specify read only access, or to allow access from the Internet, see Configuring

USB Storage Advanced Settings on page 69 for information.

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.

• The mother has a photo-capable color printer directly attached to her PC, but not shared

on the network.

• The mother’s and daughter’s computers are not visible to each other on the network.

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 N300 wireless modem router can save you time and effort.

1. The daughter accesses the USB drive by typing \\readyshare in the address field of her

Web browser. Then she copies the photos to the USB drive.

2. The mother uses a her Web browser or Microsoft Networking to transfer the files from the

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 email systems. The

N300 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 N300 wireless modem router.

Sharing files with a remote colleague involves the following steps:

1. To protect your network, set up appropriate security. Create a user name and password

for the colleague with appropriate access.

2. If you want to limit USB drive access to read only access, from the N300 wireless modem

router USB Storage (Basic Settings) screen, click Edit a Network folder. In the Write

Access field, select Edit, and then click Apply.

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