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Home media settings, Settings, see ‘home media settings, Connections – Nokia N81 User Manual

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Home media settings

To share media files with other compatible UPnP devices
through wireless LAN, you must create and configure your
wireless LAN home internet access point, then configure
the

Home media

application. See ‘Wireless LAN’, p. 73

and the wireless LAN settings in ‘Access points’, p. 125.

The options related to

Home network

in applications are

not available before the

Home network

settings have

been configured.

When you access the home media application for the first
time, the setup wizard opens, and helps you to define the
home media settings for your device. To use the setup
wizard later, in the home network main view, select

Options

>

Run wizard

, and follow the instructions on the

display.

To connect a compatible PC to the home network, on the
PC, you must install the related software from the
DVD-ROM supplied with your device.

Configure settings

To configure the home media application, select

Tools

>

Connectivity

>

Home media

>

Settings

and from the

following:

Home access point

—Select

Always ask

if you want the

device to ask for the home access point every time you
connect to the home network,

Create new

to define a

new access point that is used automatically when you use

Home media

or

None

. If your home network does not have

wireless LAN security settings enabled, you get a security
warning. You can continue, and switch the wireless LAN
security on later; or cancel defining the access point, and
first switch on the wireless LAN security. See Wireless LAN
in ‘Access points’, p. 125.

Device name

— Enter a name for your device that is shown

to the other compatible devices in the home network.

Set sharing on and define content

Select

Tools

>

Connectivity

>

Home media

>

Share

content

.

Content sharing

—Allow or deny sharing media files with

compatible devices. Do not set

Content sharing

on before

you have configured all the other settings. If you set

Content sharing

on, the other UPnP compatible devices in

the home network can view and copy your files you have
selected for sharing in the

Images & video

and

Music

folders.

Images & video

and

Music

—Select media files for sharing

with other devices, or view the sharing status of

Images &

video

and

Music

. To update the content of the folders,

select

Options

>

Refresh content

.

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