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* plugging in a USB printer, which can allow a printer sharing server to share the printer
 
= [[Router_Router -_TG582N_ TG582N -_3G 3G|3G broadband]] =
 
= Content Sharing =
 
Content sharing provides a way to share the contents of a USB storage device to machines on the LAN (or further afield). It provides some rudimentary
The content sharing server uses a separate 'virtual' interface, which it grabs its IP via DHCP. It appears to use the first DHCP pool to obtain its
network attached storage.
address, it's possible to add an extra pool which just serves 10.0.0.137 (for example) for the content server.
 
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address,fairly catastrophic with a /30 (see image below) - it's possible to add an extra DHCP pool which just serves 10.0.0.137 (for example) for the content server.
 
View the IP which content sharing has on the web interface: - Home Network - Interfaces - Local Network:
* FTP server
 
The TG582n can use a USB storage device with a single partitionpartitions formatted as FAT32 or EXT2/3/4. (''Your authorThere are some hasrestrictions not- triedwith anythingthe elsefollowing yet'')disk
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 63 65529134 65529072 31.3G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 65529135 229376069 163846935 78.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3 229376070 397148229 167772160 80G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 397148230 625142447 227994218 108.7G 83 Linux
content sharing sees all partitions except the NTFS one (/dev/sdb2), but doesn't correctly read the EXT4 partition (/dev/sdb4). Whether this
is because of partition size, or start sector, or EXT4-ness, is TBD. (/dev/sdb3 is EXT3).
 
== CIFS server ==
61543 blocks of size 32768. 60796 blocks available
smb: \>
 
although on Linux ''/sbin/mount.cifs'' might be more useful than ''smbclient''.
 
Note that the share named above 'Disk_a1' is the share available if the disk/partition is not a 'Managed partition' (see below).
If the disk/partition is a 'Managed partition' the available share names change (to 'Shared' and 'Media') and the root directory of the
partition is no longer accessible from content sharing.
 
== UPNP AV server ==
 
UPNP AV is a media server to facilitate playing media files across a network (usually a LAN). It can be enabled by:
 
:contentsharing upnpav config state=enabled
 
Then the content on the USB storage device can be shared. The USB storage device has to be setup to have the
required directory structure - it appears this has to be done on the web interface
- select Toolbox - Content Sharing - Configure and make the disk/partition a 'Managed partition'. Note that performing
this step changes the share names served from the USB storage device (to 'Shared' and 'Media').
 
One can then browse the media server with a suitable client. For example, on Linux one can use ''vlc''
- select View - Playlist - Local Network - Universal Plug'n'Play - Technicolor TG582n (unless one has changed the default name).
 
Now it just needs some media files added in the 'Media/Pictures', 'Media/Music' or 'Media/Movies' directories.
 
== FTP server ==
 
Enable with:
:contentsharing ftp config state=enabled
 
The FTP server is only of use if the disk/partition is a managed partition (see above). If the disk/partition is
not a managed partition, then there's no home directory available for the FTP server and login fails.
 
FTP to the content sharing IP address, and login with router username/password (the Administrator credentials work OK).
The root directory of the FTP server is the share named 'Shared' - whereas the shared media files for the UPNP AV server
are under a share named 'Media'.
 
== File system structure ==
 
On a USB storage device which has (at some point) been a managed partition, the file system comprises directories
named
* Settings
* Shared
* Media
* Media/Pictures
* Media/Music
* Media/Movies
 
There's a file 'Settings/manageddisk_marker' which contains a date/time string. The presence/absence/contents of this file doesn't accurately reflect the 'managed disk' status of the disk - the status has to be changed via the web UI.
 
= Printer Sharing =
:printersharing LPD queue menu
 
==Other pages regarding this router:==
<ncl style=bullet maxdepth=5 headings=bullet headstart=2 showcats=1 showarts=1 showfirst=1>Category:Router TG582N</ncl>
 
 
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