User's Guide

Configuration and Management
thereby sharing the USB device via the SMB/CIFS protocol. This
process is totally automatic and there are no configuration parameters
that can be set, other than renaming the shared resources.
The Ericsson W3x uses a relatively low powered processor and is not
designed to be a multi tasking platform. This means that you may
experience problems during high load situations such as simultaneously
downloading a large file through the mobile network and printing a large
document or copying a large file to/from a shared storage device mounted
on the Ericsson W3x. Don’t expect to have full performance on all
simultaneous tasks.
3.8.1.1 Safe Removal of a USB Device
Before removing a USB device from the Ericsson W3x wait until the activity
LED (if any) on the device stops blinking or wait some 30 seconds to be
sure there is not any ongoing/remaining write operations to be made.
3.8.2 Host Name and Workgroup
All devices on the LAN/WLAN that want to access a USB shared storage
device or printer must belong to the same workgroup as the Ericsson W3x.
The following information can be changed on the Sharing page:
Table 20 - Sharing information
Text Description
The name of the Ericsson W3x on the local network.
Host name:
The name of the group of devices sharing the same
resources on the local network.
Workgroup:
To change the host name or workgroup, type the new name in the
corresponding field and click Apply to save the settings.
For information about setting up a connection from a PC to a shared
device, follow the instruction in section
6.3.3 – Set Up a Connection to a
Storage Device or section
6.3.4 – Access a Shared Printer.
3.8.3 File Sharing
When a USB storage device is connected to the Ericsson W3x the included
files are shared with all devices on the local network (LAN/WLAN) and all
local users have full access to the shared files.
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