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Accessing the Data on the USB Mass Storage
5.
Configure the access rights and password protection
for the USB mass storage devices.
Accessing the Data on the USB Mass Storage
USB storage devices connected to the FRITZ!Box directly
or via a USB hub are displayed with their device name in
the “Home Network / USB Devices” menu on the user
interface.
FRITZ!NAS
All of the computers in the network can access the data in
the USB mass storage simultaneously via FTP.
Click the “Start FRITZ!NAS” button in the “Home Network /
Storage (NAS) / FRITZ!NAS” menu. The folder structure of
the storage available via FRITZ!NAS is displayed in yor web
browser.
Now you can select the desired USB storage device and
double click to view the data stored there. As soon as you
set a checkmark in front of a file name, you can click any
of the buttons at the top of the list to apply the associated
function.
Files on the USB storage device cannot be run or opened
until they have been copied to your computer or to your lo-
cal network.
Media Server
With this option music, image and video files on the USB
storage device can be played back by compatible devices
(streaming). The USB storage device with the media col-
lection is simply connected to the USB port on the
FRITZ!Box and a suitable playback device is linked to the
local network.
The devices automatically communicate via Universal Plug
& Play (UPnP). This technology allows the devices con-
nected to each other by cable or radio network to perform
automatic detection, recognize events, and exchange data
with each other accordingly. With UPnP AV this technology
has been expanded to audio and video contents.
The access rights and password are are not enabled if the
USB remote connection is enabled for all USB storage de-
vices.