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6 Sharing Content on
your Thomson Gateway
6.4 Managing your Shared Content
Managed Partition
If you select your drive or partition as managed partition, users only have access to the following folders:
 Media
 Shared
All other folders will be hidden from the user. These hidden folders are still on the USB storage device, but
you can not access them. If you connected more than one USB storage device, those devices will also be
hidden.
Media folder
Use the Media folder to share your audio, video and picture files. This folder can only be accessed via the
following servers:
 The Network File Server
For more information, see “6.1 Using the Network File Server”.
 UPnP AV Media Server.
For more information, see “6.2 Using the UPnP AV Media Server”.
Shared folder
The Shared folder is a folder to share files both on the local network and the Internet. This folder can only be
accessed via the following server:
 The Network File Server
For more information, see “6.1 Using the Network File Server”.
 FTP Server
For more information, see “6.3 Using the FTP Server”.
Ummanaged vs managed
The following table compares the two modes:
If your partition is managed, the UPnP AV server will only use the media files that are located in
the Media folder.
The FTP Server can only be used with a managed partition.
Access via Accessible folders
Unmanaged Managed
Network File Server All Media and Shared folder.
UPnP AV Media Server All Media folder.
FTP Server Not available in this mode. Shared folder.