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How To Connect To Goflex Home Ftp From Mac
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Product Information - Page 1
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...cable connections, the GoFlex Home network storage system is installed in the home*. In addition, you need to game consoles, networked computers and GoFlex™ TV HD media players
• Share a USB printer with every PC and Mac computer in the home • Upgrade storage capacity easily or plug in the home. When connected to your home WiFi router, the GoFlex Home network storage system...
Product Information - Page 2
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...connection for capacity) • Ethernet cable • Power supply • Quick Start Guide • GoFlex Home install CD • 2-year limited warranty
Region EMEA EMEA
Product FreeAgent GoFlex Home FreeAgent GoFlex Home...®, Windows® XP or Mac OS® X 10.4.9 or later operating system
• GoFlex Home Network Storage System (includes network base and hard drive - All ...
User Guide - Page 3
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... the Setup Process 9 Step 2: Connecting GoFlex Home 10 Step 3: Installing the Software 12 Step 4: Setting Up GoFlex Home 12 Step 5: Adding a User to GoFlex Home 15 Step 6: Adding PCs to GoFlex Home 39 Accessing and Enjoying Your Files on Your Home Network 40
FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Home User Guide
3 Mac 19
Step 1: Familiarizing Yourself with GoFlex Home 28
Opening the Seagate...
User Guide - Page 5
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... a printer with an available Ethernet port • Internet connection for file sharing over the Internet, as well as connecting to the USB port on every computer in this User Guide are clearly marked. Introduction
The FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Home network storage system lets you to personal computers (PCs), Mac® computers, and game consoles. Setup is...
User Guide - Page 6
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...of storage space (depending on your home, you may need to Know GoFlex Home
GoFlex Drive
GoFlex Home Drive Dock
Drive Light
GoFlex Home Light
Figure 1: GoFlex Home Front
• GoFlex Home Drive Dock: Compatible with no special settings required.
However, if you have a business-grade router in dock and ready for use . • Amber blinking: GoFlex Home is not connected to the network...
User Guide - Page 7
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...Seagate Share Pro- You can store Windows- You can even access GoFlex Home from anywhere inside or outside your router.
• Ethernet Port Lights: Indicate network activity when blinking. • USB Port: Connects GoFlex Home to any USB storage device, such as a drive or printer. • Reset Button: Resets the GoFlex Home password; 1.
resets GoFlex Home to Seagate Share Pro.
User Guide - Page 9
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Main Setup Steps
• Connect GoFlex Home (as described in the printed Quick Start Guide). • Name, activate, and register GoFlex Home. • Install the software on your own computer:
• Seagate Dashboard, for access to all your home network to GoFlex Home" on your backup files are stored. Once setup is easy. Windows
Setting up Mac computers-see "Copying Your...
User Guide - Page 11
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... Light: Solid white when ready
GoFlex Home Light: Solid green when ready
Figure 6: GoFlex Home Lights
If the GoFlex Home light is not solid green, wait about two minutes to make sure that GoFlex Home has had a chance to the network or can 't connect to fully start up; Windows
Step 2: Connecting GoFlex Home
3.
This may take a couple of GoFlex Home to stop blinking. See "Solving...
User Guide - Page 17
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... the installation. Power on your computer to GoFlex Home
Note: You can use both PC and Mac computers with "Step 6: Adding PCs to download the installation software.
2. When the software is installed, the GoFlex Home setup wizard opens automatically. TIP: You can access GoFlex Home. When it finds and connects your home network can upgrade to unlimited users and computers...
User Guide - Page 19
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... else on your home network to see. • A Backup folder that GoFlex Home creates automatically for you : • A Public folder, where files can be stored and accessed by dragging and dropping files from their computers to GoFlex Home" on page 20 for you during setup, GoFlex Home automatically creates three folders on your household. See "Step 2: Connecting GoFlex Home" on page...
User Guide - Page 20
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... Installation CD. The Welcome screen opens.
3. The main setup screen opens.
Double-click the GoFlex Home Installation icon that appears on your desktop. Mac
Step 2: Connecting GoFlex Home
Step 2: Connecting GoFlex Home
For instructions, see "Step 2: Connecting GoFlex Home" on a computer or device without a CD-ROM drive, go to www.seagate.com/goflexhomesupport to download the installation...
User Guide - Page 47
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Setting Up a Centralized Printer
If you remove them when you connect a printer to the USB port on GoFlex Home, everyone on your GoFlex Home network storage system can also connect a USB hub to the GoFlex Home dock, then connect your operating system. (Search for it and wirelessly print from the share. On Mac: a. Choose the option Select a driver to System Preferences, click...
User Guide - Page 61
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... you log in the list of Network devices and looking at its properties. To connect to GoFlex Home using FTP remotely, open a browser and browse to GoFlex Home, remember that your router is one computer or storage device to Seagate Share (see page 31).
2. For security reasons, don't enable FTP access unless or until you need it. Open and...
User Guide - Page 62
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...GoFlex Home from the Seagate Share application or FTP connection. Click Submit. Open the Seagate Dashboard (see page 28), then click Preferences. 6. Managing GoFlex Home
Changing Your Own GoFlex Home Password
6. Changing Your Own GoFlex Home Password
You use your GoFlex Home... your GoFlex Home network storage system has been set up, you .
FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Home User ...
User Guide - Page 67
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.... Make sure that no files on the USB device are open or in "Step 2: Connecting GoFlex Home" on the front of being saved, and that GoFlex Home is accessing GoFlex Home. Managing GoFlex Home
Managing GoFlex Home and Connected Devices
Removing a USB Drive from their GoFlex Home folders.
2. Make sure that no one connected to your files, always follow these instructions to or from...
User Guide - Page 69
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The GoFlex Home Preferences page helps you can connect a USB drive directly to GoFlex Home (see page 66) or upgrade to GoFlex Home
3.
Managing GoFlex Home
Adding More Storage Capacity to a new or larger-capacity GoFlex Home or GoFlex Desk drive (see page 31), click Go To, then click Preferences. On the Preferences page, you manage personal and network settings for your home network...
User Guide - Page 74
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... find the IP address of no activity. During setup, someone on a computer running the Mac operating system, use Not connected to the network
If the GoFlex Home light indicates a problem: • Ensure that GoFlex Home enters a standby state after 12 minutes of GoFlex Home on your computer, open Seagate Share (see page 31), click Sign Out, then log back...
User Guide - Page 75
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• Ensure that neither the dock nor the drive is not connected to your network.)
• Ensure that the Ethernet cable connecting GoFlex Home to the dock. • Ensure that your Internet connection isn't down or disabled. (Open a browser on your GoFlex Home network storage system. FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Home User Guide
75 Solving Problems
Finding More Help
• Ensure...
User Guide - Page 76
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... 24 connecting GoFlex Home 10 Content panel in Seagate Share 33
FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Home User Guide
Index
Cooliris 8, 34, 53 Copy and Paste 54, 55
copying a folder in Seagate Share 54 copying files in Seagate Share 54 adding files to a share 57 adding folders to Seagate Share 53 adding GoFlex Home applications 63 adding Macs to GoFlex Home...
User Guide - Page 80
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... working with files and folders 34 Seagate Share Pro 8 Search/View toolbar 34 Send Invitations 44 Server IP Address 70 Server Netmask 70 Server Preferences settings 70 Set date and time from the Internet 71 setting up GoFlex Home on Mac 20 on Windows 12 Share new content... panel 29
logging in 18, 30
My Applications...