User guide

2. Setting Up Your Seagate Central Discovering Seagate Central
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When you plug in the power adapter, the Seagate Central device begins to power up
automatically. This can take a few minutes.
After connecting Seagate Central, wait a few minutes for the device to complete powering on.
Discovering Seagate Central
After Seagate Central has finished powering on, it displays as a device on your network
named Seagate-xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is a factory-assigned number; for example, Seagate-
FEC14E. You can find the factory-assigned number on the bottom of your device. On a
Windows computer, you can see the device in File Explorer. On a Mac computer, you can see
the device in the Finder window.
If your device did not show up on your network, go to http://www.seagate.com/central/setup
for additional setup information.
Once you see Seagate Central as a network device (on Windows) or a shared device (on
Macs), your setup is complete. You can copy content, stream videos and music to DLNA
playback devices, and set up automatic backups. Your Seagate Central device has a folder
called Public. All content is stored in the public folder.
To take full advantage of your Seagate device, simply create a user to be able to:
• Remotely access content while on the go
• Automatically save Facebook updates to Seagate Central
• Store and share private data that requires user and password authentication
Figure 3: Connecting the Seagate Central