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2Now open your web browser and type in the address of the NSA’s FamilyPhotos web page. In this example, the NSA’s IP address is 192.168.1.33, and the name of the web-published share is FamilyPhotos. So you would enter “http://192.168.1.33/MyWeb/FamilyPhotos/” in your browser’s address bar. Then press [ENTER] or click Go. A screen displays listing the share’s files.

Figure 99 Browsing to an NSA Share Example

•Click a file’s link to open the file.

•Right-click a file’s link and select Save Target As.. (in Internet Explorer) to save a copy of the file.

•Click a label in the heading row to sort the files by that criteria.

•To customize how the page looks and works, create an index.html or index.htm file and store it in the share.

10.12.7Web Publishing

Web publishing lets you “publish” shares (containing folders and files) on the NSA so people can access the files using a web browser without having to log into the Web Configurator. This way you can share files with others without them having to know and enter a user name and password.

For example, if you want to share photos in a FamilyPhotos share, you could “web publish” it and others could use a web browser to access the photos at http://my-NSA’s-IP-Address/MyWeb/ FamilyPhotos.

Note: The NSA does not use any security for the files in the published folders. It is not recommended to publish shares if you do not have the NSA behind a good hardware-based firewall. See page 216 for more on firewalls.

Additionally, you can use HTML editing software (not included) to create an index.html or index.htm file to define and customize how your website works and looks.

Accessing Web-published Shares from the Internet

You need to use a public address to access the NSA’s web-published shares from the Internet. If your NSA uses a private IP address, you may need to use the public IP address of your Internet gateway and configure NAT or port forwarding on your Internet gateway and possibly firewall rules in order to let people access the NSA’s web-published shares from the Internet.

 

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