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Getting the Most Out of Your Thomson Gateway

6.1.4

Accessing your Shared Content by FTP

Introduction

The Thomson Gateway allows you to access your shared content by FTP. This can be useful if you want to be
able to access your shared content from the Internet.

Procedure

Proceed as follows:

1

Protect your Thomson Gateway Web Interface login account with a password

.

If you have already configured a password for your login account, you can continue with the next step.

2

Configure FTP access for your shared content

.

Protect your

Thomson Gateway Web Interface

login account with a password

If your login account is not yet configured with a password:

1

Browse to the

Thomson Gateway Web Interface

.

2

On the Toolbox menu, click User Management.

3

In the Pick a task list, click Change my password.

4

Leave the Old Password box empty.

5

Type your new password both in the New Password box and Confirm New Password box.

Configure FTP access for your shared content

Proceed as follows:

1

Browse to the

Thomson Gateway Web Interface

.

2

On the Tools menu, click Content Sharing.

3

In the

Location bar

, click Configure.

4

Under FTP Server, click Server Enabled.

5

Under List of connected disks, click the radio button next to the partition that you want to access using
FTP.

6

The Thomson Gateway now creates a Media and Shared folder on the selected partition. The Shared
folder will be used as root location for FTP sessions.

7

Click Apply.