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* plugging in a USB printer, which can allow a printer sharing server to share the printer
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= 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.▼
▲The content sharing server uses a separate 'virtual' interface, which
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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
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 ==
client ntlmv2 auth = no
to smb.conf. It's then possible to authenticate with a router username/password - at least, the Administrator account credentials work OK.
For example, with the content sharing server on 192.168.1.32:
$ smbclient -U Administrator //192.168.1.32/Disk_a1
Enter Administrator's password:
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.12]
smb: \> dir
. D 0 Tue Jan 20 16:12:42 2015
.. D 0 Tue Jan 20 15:05:02 2015
HDR_FOX_T2_upgrade.hdf A 24108401 Wed Jul 2 17:41:50 2014
why_I_love_aaisp.pdf A 359760 Tue Jan 20 16:12:05 2015
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 =
''Your author doesn't have a printer with a USB connection, so can't offer much guidance. The command to enable printer sharing would be:''
:printersharing LPD config state=enabled
And you'd need to add a queue, a good place to start is:
:printersharing LPD queue menu
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