Technicolor - Thomson TG787 manual Accessing your Shared Content by FTP

4 Getting the Most Out of Your Thomson Gateway

4.1.4Accessing your Shared Content by FTP

Introduction

The Thomson Gateway allows you to access your shared content by FTP. This can be useful if you want to be able to access your shared content from the Internet.

Procedure

Proceed as follows:

1Protect your Thomson Gateway Web Interface login account with a password.

If you have already configured a password for your login account, you can continue with the next step.

2Configure FTP access for your shared content.

Protect your Thomson Gateway Web Interface login account with a password

If your login account is not yet configured with a password:

1Browse to the Thomson Gateway Web Interface.

2On the Toolbox menu, click User Management.

3In the Pick a task list, click Change my password.

4Leave the Old Password box empty.

5Type your new password both in the New Password box and Confirm New Password box.

Configure FTP access for your shared content

Proceed as follows:

1Browse to the Thomson Gateway Web Interface.

2On the Tools menu, click Content Sharing.

3In the Navigation Bar, click Configure.

4Under FTP Server, click Server Enabled.

5Under List of connected disks, click the radio button next to the partition that you want to access using FTP.

6The Thomson Gateway now creates a Media and Shared folder on the selected partition. The Shared folder will be used as root location for FTP sessions.

7Click Apply.

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