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User Guide MeeBox
Table of Contents
Part 1 - About Your MeeBox ................................................................................... 6
Safety Precautions ................................................................................................................ 7
Specifications ......................................................................................................................... 8
What’s in the Box .................................................................................................................. 9
Product Exterior ................................................................................................................... 10
Front .............................................................................................................................................. 10
Rear ............................................................................................................................................... 11
Note for Macintosh users .................................................................................................. 12
Part 2 - Setting Up Your MeeBox .......................................................................... 13
Connecting and turning on your MeeBox................................................................... 14
Performing initial setup ...................................................................................................... 15
Using the Setup Wizard (Windows only) .............................................................................. 15
Using the browser-based admin interface (all operating systems) ............................. 16
Adding user accounts ....................................................................................................... 18
Part 3 - Using Your MeeBox ................................................................................... 19
Using your MeeBox as a UPnP media server ............................................................... 20
Copying files into the media folder ...................................................................................... 20
Managing the media server .................................................................................................. 21
Understanding scan options .................................................................................................. 22
Enabling/disabling the media server ................................................................................... 23
Using your MeeBox as an iTunes server ........................................................................ 25
Enabling the iTunes server ....................................................................................................... 25
Copying music to your MeeBox ............................................................................................ 25
Using your MeeBox as a network storage device ..................................................... 26
Accessing a share in Windows .............................................................................................. 27
Accessing a share in Mac OS X or Linux ............................................................................. 27
Mapping a share to a drive letter (Windows only) .......................................................... 28
Accessing a second internal hard drive ............................................................................. 28
Using external storage devices ....................................................................................... 29
Using a USB drive ....................................................................................................................... 29
Using a USB memory card reader ......................................................................................... 29