Forwarding; Virtual Servers - TP-Link TL-WR1043ND User Manual

Password - Enter the password in the Password field. The password must be composed of
alphanumeric symbols not exceeding 15 characters in length. For security purposes, the
password for each user account is not displayed.
Confirm Password - Re-enter the password here.
Storage Authority – Choose Read and Write or Read Only from the drop-down list to
assign access authority of Storage Sharing to the user.
FTP Access – Choose Yes or No from the drop-down list to decide whether the user can
access FTP Server or not.
Save - You can click the SAVE button to save your settings.
Back - You can click the Back button to discard the settings and just go to the media server
configuration page.
Note:
1. Please restart the service for the new settings to take effect.
2. If you cannot use the new user name and password to access the shares, press Windows
logo + R to open the Run dialog box and type net use \\192.168.1.1 /delete /yes and press
Enter. (192.168.1.1 is your router's LAN IP address. If the LAN IP of the modem connected
with your router is 192.168.1.x, the default LAN IP of the Router will automatically switch from
192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.1 to avoid IP conflict; in this case, please try net use \\192.168.0.1
/delete / yes.)
4.9

Forwarding

Figure 4-44 The Forwarding menu
There are four submenus under the Forwarding menu (shown in Figure 4-44 ): Virtual Servers,
Port Triggering, DMZ and UPnP. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the
corresponding function.
4.9.1

Virtual Servers

Choose menu "Forwarding→Virtual Servers", and then you can view and add virtual servers in
the next screen (shown in Figure 4-45 ). Virtual servers can be used for setting up public services
on your LAN. A virtual server is defined as a service port, and all requests from Internet to this
service port will be redirected to the computer specified by the server IP. Any PC that was used
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