User's Manual

ASUS 802.11g WL-HDD2.5 35
Sharing Files
The ASUS WL-HDD2.5 is primarily designed to help you share data,
music, video, or other files over the wireless LAN. You can set up this
device in your house, office, or dormitory, such that anyone can
access media files from it using a wireless connection.
To share files from the ASUS WL-HDD2.5 that has been set up as
your network storage drive, do the following:
1. Connect to the wireless network through your wireless client and
access the ASUS WL-HDD2.5 as described in “Accessing the
HDD” on page 20.
2. Type a valid user name and password to access data.
3. In order to share data from the ASUS WL-HDD2.5, you must
access the HDD using a valid user name. See “Editing the User
List” on page 31 for more details about creating users. Only the
folders and partitions that have been shared will be visible to
you.For instance, in this example, only the second partition
(part2) and the movies, music, and USBpart001 folders have
been shared. When you login as a user, only these items will be
displayed on the hard drive. However, if you log in as admin, you
can see all the contents of the hard drive including the other parti-
tions.
Logging in as ‘user’
Logging in as ‘admin’