- 1 Introduction

Chapter 1 - Introduction

The Shared Nodes menu page enables you to set the sharing rights and privileges for the shared partitions on the hard disk drive of the ASUS Wireless "WL-HDD". The following options are available:

Network Neighborhood Mode

Select the default setting of Share all partitions on disk to enable sharing of all partitions on the disk.

Work Group

Specify the name of the work group to which the device belongs. The default is Mygroup.

FTP Mode

Select the FTP Mode to specify which partitions is the default when used by FTP clients for logging in.

Maximum Login User

Specify the maximum number of users that can log in to access the hard disk drive and its partitions. The default is 6.

Shared Nodes List

This option enables you set up the various partitions on the hard disk drive. The partitions are all Linux partitions. Enter in the path for a folder or partition to be shared under Path. Type in a name for the partition under Shared Name that will be used by wireless clients when accessing the hard disk drive. Click the Shared check box to enable sharing of the selected folder. Click the Write check box to enable writing access of the selected folder. Click Add to create the partition. To edit the properties of an existing partition, scroll through the Folders and Partitions drop-down box to choose a partition for making changes. Make the changes desired, then click Edit to save your changes. Click Del after selecting a partition to delete it.

User List

You can specify which users can access your hard disk drive by creating a user list. Type in a name under User Name and its password under Password. Only the users specified in this list will be able to access the hard disk drive. Click Add to add the user and Del to delete a selected user in the list.

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