Magnetar UDP900, User Manual

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Advanced Operations
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Media Sharing in a Home Network
This product can remotely play music, pictures and video documents stored in media devices connected to the same home network with
it. You have to prepare a set of hardware like a computer (network attached storage) server connected to the same network segment as
the player. Install and configure software which is functionally equivalent to NFS, DLNA or SAMBA/CIFS (a protocol for sharing network
documents) client. In the setting menu, my network setting is enabled. Choose the network icon in the main menu. Then, press OK, and a
list of servers available will be displayed. In some cases, you might have to disable the hardware firewall, to allow access to the server by
this product.
For the UDP-900 player, a network can be shared in any of the following three ways
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Function as digital media player (DMP):
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The player can actively search the local DLNA server, browser and play the share content therein.
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Access SMB/CIFS:
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The player can actively search the SMB/CIFS, brows and share the content therein with the player.
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For instance, the documents shared in the neighborhood document of Windows.
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Access NFS:
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The player can actively search the NFS, and browse the content it shares with the player.
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Generally, it will take more time to search the NFS.