Managing Your Shared Content - THOMSON TG797n Setup And User Manual

Sharing Content on your Thomson Gateway
8.4

Managing your Shared Content

Managed Partition
When your USB storage device is permanently connected to the Thomson Gateway, you may want to
If you select your drive or partition as managed partition, users only have access to the following folders:
 Media
 Shared
All other folders will be hidden from the user. These hidden folders are still on the USB storage device, but
you can not access them. If you connected more than one USB storage device, those devices will also be
hidden.
Media folder
Use the Media folder to share your audio, video and picture files. This folder can only be accessed via the
following servers:
 The Network File Server
For more information, see
 UPnP AV Media Server.
For more information, see
If your partition is managed, the UPnP AV server will only use the media files that are located in
the Media folder.
Shared folder
The Shared folder is a folder to share files both on the
accessed via the following server:
 The Network File Server
For more information, see
 FTP Server
For more information, see
The FTP Server can only be used with a managed partition.
Ummanaged vs. managed
The following table compares the two modes:
Access via
Network File Server
UPnP AV Media Server
FTP Server
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"8.1 The Network File Server".
"8.2 The UPnP AV Media Server".
local network and the
"8.1 The Network File Server".
"8.3 The FTP Server".
Accessible folders
Unmanaged
All
All
Not available in this mode.
Internet. This folder can only be
Managed
Media and Shared folder.
Media folder.
Shared folder.
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