Connect To The Usb Drive From A Remote Computer; Locate The Internet Port Ip Address; Access The Modem Router's Usb Drive Remotely With Ftp; Connect To The Usb Drive With Microsoft Network Settings - NETGEAR DGN2200v1 User Manual

Connect to the USB Drive from a Remote Computer

To connect to the USB drive from remote computers using a Web browser, you use the
modem router's Internet port IP address.

Locate the Internet Port IP Address

The Router Status screen shows the Internet port IP address:
Log in to the modem router.
1.
Select Maintenance > Router Status.
2.
Record the IP address that is listed for the Internet port. This is the IP address you can use
3.
to connect to the modem router remotely.

Access the Modem Router's USB Drive Remotely with FTP

You can connect to the modem router's USB drive using a Web browser:
Connect to the modem router by typing ftp:// and the Internet port IP address in the
1.
address field of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, for example, ftp://10.1.65.4. If
you are using Dynamic DNS, you can type the DNS name rather than the IP address.
Type the name and password of the account that has access rights to the USB drive.
2.
The directories of the USB drive that your account has access to display, for example,
share/partition1/directory1. You can now read and copy files from the USB directory.

Connect to the USB Drive with Microsoft Network Settings

You can access the USB drive from local computers on your home or office network using
Microsoft network settings. You must be running Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, or older
versions of Windows with Microsoft networking enabled. You can use normal Explorer
operations such as dragging and dropping, opening files, or cutting and pasting files from:
Microsoft Windows Start menu, Run option
•
Windows Explorer
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Network Neighborhood or My Network Place
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Enabling File and Printer Sharing

Each computer's network properties have to be set to enable network communication with
the USB drive. File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft networking have to be enabled, as
described in the following sections.
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