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Securely share your photos and video clips with friends and family directly from your HP MediaSmart Server using HP Photo Webshare.
• Easily set up a secure, personal web address* to be used for remote access and by visitors to your HP Photo Webshare.
• Set up groups for sharing the different photo albums, such as family, ski club, and soccer team.
• Give specific visitors permission to add their own photos for sharing. • HP Photo Webshare links to Snapfish for easy photo printing. *Free and charge options (for personal domain name) are available.
Before You Begin
Some set up is required before logging on to the HP Photo Webshare for the first time. Check that the following configuration steps are complete.
• Enable at least one user account with remote access
• Select at least one user account to be a Webshare Manager
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• Select visitor storage limits
• Setup remote access
Enable at least one user account with remote access
1 At the computer, double-click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray.
2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Console. 3 Click the User Accounts tab.
If the User Accounts Setup dialog displays, click OK. 4 Click Add on the User Accounts page.
The Add User Accounts dialog box opens. If you 5 Type First name, Last name, and Logon name.
The Logon name must be unique.
6 Check Enable remote access for this user and click Next. 7 Type and confirm a strong Password and click Next.
8 Set access to shared folders and click Finish.
Select at least one user account to be a Webshare Manager
Webshare Managers must have a user account with remote access enabled. If remote access is not enabled, complete the above steps before doing these. 1 Click Settings in the upper right of the Windows Home Server Console.
The Windows Home Server Settings dialog box opens. 2 Click Photo Webshare in the left menu.
3 Under Webshare Managers, select the user accounts to manage albums and visitors.
All user accounts are listed. However, remote access must be enabled on user accounts that are also Webshare Managers. If remote access is not enabled, you cannot select the user account. For more information, see Enable at least one user account with remote access on page 5-2.
4 Click OK on the Windows Home Server Settings dialog or keep it open to set up Webshare notifications, which are described in the next procedure.
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Setup Webshare notifications
Webshare notifications allow users to receive email notifications letting them know photos, or other albums, have been created/updated or shared with other users.
1 Click Settings in the upper right of the Windows Home Server Console. The Windows Home Server Settings dialog box opens.
2 Click Photo Webshare in the left menu.
3 Under Webshare Notifications, click Configure. 4 Follow the instructions in the Email Settings wizard. 5 Click Finish at the end of the wizard.
6 Click OK on the Windows Home Server Settings dialog or keep it open to set up visitor storage limits, which are described in the next procedure.
There is a section in the FAQ covering SMTP notification setup.
Select visitor storage limits
Visitors are friends and family outside your home network that you choose to share Webshare albums with. Depending on how you set up visitors, they may be able to add photos and videos to Webshare albums. The storage limit restricts the space for unapproved photos and videos added by visitors. 1 Click Settings in the upper right of the Windows Home Server Console.
The Windows Home Server Settings dialog box opens. 2 Click Photo Webshare in the left menu.
3 Under Visitor storage limits, select a limit for unapproved photo storage space for each Webshare visitor.
4 Click OK on the Windows Home Server Settings dialog or keep it open to set up remote access, which is described in the next procedure.
Setup remote access
1 Click Settings in the upper right of the Windows Home Server Console. The Windows Home Server Settings dialog box opens.
2 Click Remote Access in the left menu.
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4 Under Router, click Setup.
The server automatically tries to configure your broadband router. For more information, see Configuring your broadband router in the Windows Home Server Console Help.
5 Under Domain Name, click Setup.
A Domain Name is a Web address. It allows you to access your HP MediaSmart Server and HP Photo Webshare from the Internet. For instance, if you registered MyFamily.hpshare.net for your HP
MediaSmart Server, you would use this address to connect to your server using remote access. Additionally, this address is part of the URL for accessing an album on your Photo Webshare.
For additional information, see Domain Name on page 2-15. 6 Customize Web site Settings as desired.
7 Click OK.