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Port Forwarding to Shared USB Device
Port forwarding is a way to make a computer on your home or business network
accessible to other computers on the internet, even though they are behind a router;
Port forwarding needs to be set up in your router, and the method may differ
depending on the brand and model of your router. Following is an example of the
steps required for port forwarding:
1.
Please login to your router.
2.
Navigate to your router’s port forwarding section by referring to its manual.
3.
Create the port forward entries in your router.
For example, in this case, the
IP address of the server computer with the desired shared USB device is
192.168.31.32 and has a TCP port number of 49666. The router will have to
be set up as shown in the figure below.
After you enter the
IP address and TCP port number for port forwarding
, don’t forget
to apply the setting and save it. You must also remember the router IP address (
for
example, in this case, the IP is shown on the top right corner as WAN IP:
111.251.32.236)
After port forwarding, you can
use “Add Device” (refer to page 31)
to test that your
port forwarding rules are set up correctly.
Click “Add Device”
and
enter the router’s
IP address and the
TCP port number of remote shared USB device.
Click “OK”
to
finish adding a
remote
shared USB device
to your computer.
