NETGEAR DG834GUV5 Sharing Photos with Friends and Family, Sharing photos with friends and family

DG834GUv5 Wireless Router with Built-in DSL Modem User Manual

Sharing Photos with Friends and Family

The DG834GUv5 allows you to create your own central storage location for photos and multimedia. This eliminates the need to log in to (and pay for) an external photo sharing site.

Sharing Photos With Friends and Family

Figure 8-1: Sharing photos with friends and family

Sharing files with your friends and family involves the following steps:

1.Using the DG834GUv5 Wireless Router configuration utility, assign a username and password for each friend or family member.

2.Specify a share folder that the account can access.

3.Decide whether the account should have read only or read and write privileges. You can assign read only access of the shared folder on the USB drive to remote friends and family members such as Grandma.

4.Local family members (Mom, Dad, and Son) can use a Web browser or Microsoft Networking to access files on the USB drive. Local users have read and write privilege

For more information on sharing photos with friends and family who are at another location, see “Connecting to the USB Drive from a Remote Computer” on page 8-11.

For more information on sharing photos with family on your local network, see “Connecting to the USB Drive from a Local Web Browser” on page 8-11and “Connecting to the USB Drive From Your Home/Office Network” on page 8-12.

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v1.0, May 2009