Sharing Files - Asus WL-HDD2.5 User Manual

Sharing Files

The ASUS WL-HDD2.5 is primarily designed to help you share data,
music, video, or other files over the wireless LAN. You can set up this
device in your house, office, or dormitory, such that anyone can
access media files from it using a wireless connection.
To share files from the ASUS WL-HDD2.5 that has been set up as
your network storage drive, do the following:
1. Connect to the wireless network through your wireless client and
access the ASUS WL-HDD2.5 as described in "Accessing the
Hard Disk Drive" on page 20.
2. Type a valid user name and password to access data.
3. In order to share data from the ASUS WL-HDD2.5, you must
access the hard disk drive using a valid user name. See "Editing
the User List" on page 34 for more details about creating users.
4. If you want to copy any data to the hard drive, the destination
folder or partition must be write-enabled. Make sure that the
access rights (see "Editing the Shared Nodes List" on page 36) are
set to Share – on and Write – on and then copy data to the drive.
If the write permissions are not set and you try to copy data to a
folder, the following error message will be displayed.
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