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9.3.4    Accessing USB Storage using NetUSB Technology

Before you use NetUSB technology to access USB storage, please make sure the storage access mode is in 
NetUSB mode.

A.   In the Control Center, click the MFP server that has the desired USB storage device attached. 

B.   Click the desired USB storage device.

C.   Click the “Link” button to manually link the USB storage device. 

D.   Your PC will have a new disk. For example, if you link a flash drive, your PC will have a new “removable 

disk”. You can see the storage icon in the system tray, as the following figure.

E.   Just use the new disk as a general disk. 

F.   After you finish the disk operations, click the storage icon in the system tray and choose “Safely remove 

USB Mass Storage Device”.

G.   In the Control Center, click the “Unlink” button to unlink the USB storage device.

Please note that by this way, FAT32 and NTFS file system can be fully supported.

9.4  Limitations

There are some limitations to use the NetUSB technology.

A.   Only supports Windows 2000/XP/2003. Windows 98/ME is not supported. 

B.   Only one PC can get the ownership of the same USB device at the same time. Moreover, once a USB 

device is “linked” by a PC so that the PC “owns” that USB device, other PCs can not “access” this USB 
device by any means. For example, if a printer is linked by a PC using the NetUSB technology, no other 
PCs can print to this printer by LPR or SMB or IPP protocols, until the printer is unlinked. 

C.   The “Auto Link / Unlink” function can only be used with printers. Only manually link/ unlink is supported 

for scanners or USB storage. 

D.  For USB storage, although NTFS can be supported by the NetUSB technology, it can not be shared 

among network users.