Operating Instructions and Installation Instructions

Sharing a USB Printer
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• Participants in the home network can use FTP software
like FireFTP to exchange files among the FRITZ!Box stor-
age media and workplaces.
Alternatively, you can enter ftp://fritz.box
in the address
line of your Internet browser to access the storage media
of the FRITZ!Box.
If you would like to use FTP software, see the documen-
tation of the software as well as the instructions in the
Online Help of the FRITZ!Box user interface.
• For access to media data like music, images and videos
available on the memory or on storage media of the
FRITZ!Box you can enable the FRITZ!Box media server.
Suitable playback devices like TV sets, web radios,
smartphones and the Windows Media Player can then
call up the data for streaming from the media server.
Playback devices to be used in connection with the me-
dia server must support the UPnP AV standard. The term
“DLNA” is often used to designate this support.
Enable the “media server” function in the FRITZ!Box user
interface under “Home Network / Storage (NAS) / Op-
tions Enabled”.
15.6 Sharing a USB Printer
You can connect a USB printer to the FRITZ!Box to make it
available to all participants in your home network. You can ei-
ther release the printer for sharing as a network printer or use
the FRITZ!Box USB remote connection software to connect it
with a computer.
Using a USB Printer as a Network Printer
Configure the USB printer as a network printer on the
FRITZ!Box if
• the participants in the home network are to be able to
use the printer jointly and simultaneously.
• the printer is to be used by computers that use an oper-
ating system other than Windows.