Technicolor - Thomson TG784 Managing your Shared Content, Managed Partition, Result, Introduction

6 Getting the Most Out of Your Thomson Gateway

6.1.2Managing your Shared Content

Introduction

To prevent that users start creating folders on your USB storage device and to keep the directory structure clean and transparent, the Thomson Gateway allows you to configure your USB storage device as Managed Partition.

Managed Partition

If you select your drive or partition as managed partition, users will only be able to access following folders:

Media

Shared

If these folders are not on your USB storage device. The Thomson Gateway will create them automatically.

All other folders will be hidden from the user. If you connected more than one USB storage device, those devices will also be hidden.

Procedure

Proceed as follows:

1Browse to the Thomson Gateway Web Interface.

2On the Tools menu, click Content Sharing.

3In the Location bar, click Configure.

4Under List of connected disks, click the radio button next to the partition you want to configure as Managed Partition.

5Click Apply.

Result

The Thomson Gateway creates following folders:

Media:

Use this folder to share your media files with others users on your network. You can store your media files in following subfolders:

Movies

Music

Pictures

Shared:

Use this folder to share your data with other users. Optionally, users can also access this folder using FTP. For more information, see “6.1.4 Accessing your Shared Content by FTP” on page 49.

If the above folders already exist, the existing folders are used.

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