NETGEAR WNDR4500

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N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4500
Access the Connected USB Hard Drive
After the initial set up explained in the previous section, you can access the connected USB
hard drive from Your Mac or PC.
 To access the drive:
1. Start ReadySHARE:
• On a Mac: Select Go > Connect
to Server, and then type: smb://readyshare
• On a PC: Select St
art > Run, and then type: \\readyshare
2. From your MAC desktop, open Mac
intosh HD.
3. Click the Connect As butto
n. In the pop-up window, select Registered User, and enter
admin as the user name and password as the password. Click Connect.
• After connecting successfully, you
can list your connected devices. Note that you see
one extra device, called admin, whenever you log in as admin.
• If you are backing up a large amount of data, befor eyou contineu, see Before
You
Back up a Large Amount of Data on p
age 83.
4. From the Apple me
nu, select System Preferences. Open Time Machine. Click Select
Disk and choose the backup disk. Click the Use for Backup button to complete your
selection.
If you do not see the USB partition that you want to use for backup in the Time Machine
di
sk list, go to MAC finder, and click that USB partition.Then that device displays in the
Time Machine list.