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4

Getting the Most Out of Your Thomson Gateway

4.1.2

Managing your Shared Content

Introduction

To prevent that users start creating folders on your USB storage device and to keep the directory structure
clean and transparent, the Thomson Gateway allows you to configure your USB storage device as

Managed

Partition

.

Managed Partition

If you select your drive or partition as managed partition, users will only be able to access following folders:



Media



Shared

All other folders will be hidden from the user. If you connected more than one USB storage device, those
device will be hidden.

If these folders are not on your USB storage device. The Thomson Gateway will create them automatically.

Procedure

Proceed as follows:

1

Browse to the

Thomson Gateway Web Interface

.

2

On the Tools menu, click Content Sharing.

3

In the

Navigation Bar

, click Configure.

4

Under List of connected disks, click the radio button next to the partition you want to configure as

Managed Partition

.

5

Click Apply.

Result

The Thomson Gateway creates following folders:



Media:
Use this folder to share your media files with others users on your network. You can store your media
files in following subfolders:



Movies



Music



Pictures



Shared:
Use this folder to share your data with other users. Optionally, users can also access this folder using FTP.
For more information, see

“4.1.4 Accessing your Shared Content by FTP” on page 37

.

If the above folders are already exist, the existing folders are used.

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