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• Publish shares to let others play the contained media files.
• The media server is a convenient way to share files you download.
• Hardware-based media players can also play the files. See Supported Media Server Content Formats
on page 345 for the supported multimedia file formats.
Note: Anyone on your network can play the media files in the published shares. No user name
and password or other form of security is used. The media server is enabled by default
with the video, photo, and music shares published.
Songs from the iTunes Store
After using iTunes on your computer to download songs from Apple’s iTunes Store, you can copy them
to the NAS. Many of these songs have DRM (Digital Rights Management). At the time of writing, you can
use your Apple account ID and password to authorize up to a total of five computers to play the files. To
authorize a computer, open iTunes and click Store > Authorize Computer.
A link for the NAS in iTunes under SHARED. Click it to display the NAS’s published media files as shown
next.
Figure 142 NAS link in iTunes
10.11.2 Web Publishing
Web publishing lets you “publish” shares (containing folders and files) on the NAS so people can access
the files using a web browser without having to log into the Web Configurator. This way you can share
files with others without them having to know and enter a user name and password.
For example, if you want to share photos in a FamilyPhotos share, you could “web publish” it and others
could use a web browser to access the photos at http://my-NAS’s-IP-Address/MyWeb/FamilyPhotos.
Note: The NAS does not use any security for the files in the published folders. It is not
recommended to publish shares if you do not have the NAS behind a good hardware-
based firewall. See page 250 for more on firewalls.
Additionally, you can use HTML editing software (not included) to create an index.html or index.htm file
to define and customize how your website works and looks.
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