Netgear Centria Wndr4700 Wndr4720 Media Storage Router User Manual

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4. 
Use the Power On/Off button to turn off the router.
5. Open the router side door and release the internal latch as shown.
6. Grab the top and bottom of the HDD with your fingers and pull to remove it.
7. If you are installing a 0.75-inch-thi ck HDD (this is uncommon), insert the tray into the router.
Follow the THIS SIDE UP  and the BACK OF PRODUCT  signs on the tray to place it in 
the correct orientation.  
						

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8. 
The connector
is up.
Insert the HDD.
9.  Close the latch to secure
  the HDD in place. 
10.  Close the side door of th
 e router.
If the latch is not in the correct position or the HDD is inserted in the wrong direction, then 
the side
  door to the router cannot be closed.
When you turn on the router, the HDD LED shows the status of the HDD. See  Table 1, 
LED description on p
 age 10 .
Format the HDD
If you install the HDD during your initial router setup, the router detects it and prompts you to 
format the HDD. You can follow the  prompts to do so, or wait until later and log in to the router 
to format the HDD from the router menu.
CAUTION:
Formatting the internal disk drive erases all files and folders that are stored 
on it. 
						

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To format the HDD:
1. 
Select  Advanced > Storage > Advanced Settings . 
2. Click the Format Internal Disk  button. 
						

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6.   ReadySHARE Printer
Share a printer connected to the USB port
ReadySHARE Printer is compatible with Macs and Windows PCs. It lets you connect a USB 
printer to the router’s USB port, and access it wirelessly. 
This chapter contains the following sections:
•     ReadySHARE Printer 
•     USB Control Center Utility 
For more information about ReadySHARE features, visit www.netgear.com/readyshare.  
						

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ReadySHARE Printer
You can connect a USB printer to the router’s USB port, and share it among Windows and 
Mac computers on the network. 
To set up ReadySHARE Printer:
1. 
Con
nect the USB printer to the router’s USB port with a USB printer cable.
2. Inst
all the USB printer driver software  on each computer that will share the printer. If you do 
not have the printer driver, contact the printer manufacturer to find and download the most 
recent printer driver software.
3.  On each
  computer that shares the printer, download the NETGEAR USB Control Center 
utility. The NETGEAR USB utility has a Mac version and a Windows version, which you can 
access in two different ways:
•      From the Read
 ySHARE Printer area of the page you reach through this URL:  
www.netgear.com/readyshare
•      From the ReadySHARE tab of genie. (See  NETGEAR genie App and Mobile genie 
App  on p
age  25).
Note:   Yo u  have to install this utility before you can use the ReadySHARE 
Printer feature. For the ReadySHARE Printer feature to work, this 
utility has to be running in the background. 
						

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4. 
Follow the instructions to install t he NETGEAR USB Control Center utility.
5.  Af
ter you have installed the utility, select the language. 
						

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6. 
The first time you access the utility, you are asked to select the printer and click the  Connect 
button.
Once the connection is established, the  status changes to Manually connected by  xxx.
You can click the Disconnect button at any time to releas e the connection. The status 
then changes to Available.
After you click the Connect button once on each co mputer in the network, the utility on each 
of them handles the printing queue and handling. The status of the printer is Available on all of 
the computers.
•      When
 the status is Available, you can use the USB printer.
•     When
 the status is Manually connected by xxx , only the xxx computer can use the 
printer. Other network devices must wait until the  xxx computer has released the 
connection, or until the connection time s out (the default time-out value is 30 
seconds). 
						

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•     
You can set the value for the default time-out time from  Tools > Configuration.
•      Th
e USB Control Center utility must be running for the computer to be able to print to 
the USB printer attached to the router. If you exit the utility, printing does not work.
•      Some fire
 wall software, such as Comodo, bl ocks the ReadySHARE Print utility from 
accessing the USB printer. If you do not see the printer in the utility, you can disable 
the firewall temporarily to allow the utility to work.
7.  If
 your printer supports scanning, make sure that the printer is in the Available state, and 
click the Network Scanner  button. The Scanner window opens so you can use the printer 
for scanning. 
						

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USB Control Center Utility
The USB Control Center utility allows you 
to control a shared USB device from your 
computer that is connected to the USB port on yo ur router. The utility allows you to control a 
printer and a scanner. 
You have to install the utility on each computer  on the net
 work from which you want to control 
the device. You can download this utility for PC and Mac at 
www.netgear.com/landing/en-us/readyshare.aspx .
When you launch the USB Control Center utility, a scree
 n similar to the following displays:
The main screen shows a device icon, the description for this USB device, and its status.
Available. Th
e device is available from the computer that you are using.
Waiting to Connect . Y
 ou need to connect to this device from the computer that you are 
using. If this is the first time you are connecting, you might be prompted to install the device 
driver.
Menu selections:
•      System . Exit 
 the utility.
•      T
ools . Access the Control Center Configuration to set up your shared USB device. See 
the following section,  Control Center Configuration .
•      About . V
 iew details about the USB Control Center software. 
						

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Control Center Configuration
Select Tools > Configuration
 to display the following screen:
Automatically execute when logging on Windows . Enable this utility to start automatically 
when you are logged in to Windows.
Timeout . S
 pecify the time-out value for holding the USB resource when it is not in use.
Language. Select t
 he display language for this utility.
USB Printer
The first time you use a printer, click  Connect. You might be asked to install the driver for this 
printer. After the driver is installed,  the printer status changes to Available.
Note:  Some USB printers (for example: HP and Lexmark printers) request 
that you do not connect the USB cabl e until their installation software 
prompts you to do so.
If the USB printer is detected and connected automatically, you need to disconnect the 
printer, and then wait for the prompt asking you to click  Connect.