Yachts: Ericsson W25 can share USB sticks and hard drives and Printers

A lot of owners/users of the Ericsson W25 are not aware that it can do some special things - besides the magic of providing Analog Telephone usage of Cellular Voice plans and 3G High Speed Internet. The E W25 can also be used to share USB memory sticks and external USB hard disk drives to the on board network (ethernet wired ports and wifi if you’ve got wifi on board connected.) This can be helpful if you have normally done that via a desktop computer or such and don’t want to leave that computer on 24/7.

Configure USB Services

The Ericsson W25 may function as a network storage device or printer server
for LAN/WLAN hosts using Windows File and Printer sharing (also known as
SMB or CIFS). 
It is possible to have two USB storage devices or one storage device and a
USB printer connected to the Ericsson W25 at the same time.
When an external hub is connected, the Ericsson W25 supports connection of
up to two storage devices and one printer at the same time.

File Sharing
USB disk drives or memory sticks that are connected to the Ericsson W25 are
automatically mounted and shared over the LAN (and WLAN, if enabled).

The included files are shared with all devices belonging to the same
workgroup on the LAN/WLAN and all users have full read/write (including
delete) access to the shared files.
Note: Only the first partition of the storage device will be automatically
mounted and shared through the smb service.

Printer Sharing
When a printer is connected to the USB port, the Ericsson W25 automatically
creates a local UNIX printer that is shared over the LAN (and WLAN, if
enabled) using SMB/CIFS protocol.
The smb service only performs protocol conversion between SMB/CIFS and
the local printer.

* Note: For my direct customers with E W25 units - If you need any help using the sharing services of the unit … please contact me. I have just done a printer on a S/Y sharing it via the built-in wifi of an E W25 - so I know that is a little tricky. You only need to do that if your printer isn’t already network aware (is not wireless or wired LAN capable) e.g. USB only printers.

Sharing hard drives and USB memory sticks is pretty easy, but you may still need a little help if you are not familiar with Windows Sharing. So my customers feel free to contact me if you need assistance with this stuff.

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Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net and http://www.wifiyacht.net

+1 954 683 3426

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