Nokia N96 - Settings for home network

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Settings for home network

To share media files saved in Photos with other

UPnP compatible and DLNA certified devices

through WLAN, you must create and configure your

WLAN home internet access point, then configure

the settings for home network in the Home media

application.

See "WLAN internet access

points", p. 115.See "Connection settings", p. 171.

The options related to home network are not

available in applications before the settings in the

Home media application have been configured.
When you access the Home media application for

the first time, the setup wizard opens and helps you

define the home network settings for your device.

To use the setup wizard later, in the Home media

main view, select

Options

>

Run wizard

, and

follow the instructions on the display.
To connect a compatible PC to the home network,

on the PC, you must install the related software. You

get the software from the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

supplied with your device, or you can download it

from the device support pages on the Nokia

website.

Configure settings

To configure the settings for home network, select

Tools

>

Connectivity

>

Home media

>

Options

>

Settings

and from the following:

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Home network

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Home access point

— Select

Always ask

if you

want the device to ask for the home access point

every time you connect to the home network,

Create new

to define a new access point that is

used automatically when you use the home

network, or

None

. If your home network does

not have WLAN security settings enabled, you get

a security warning. You can continue and switch

the WLAN security on later; or cancel defining the

access point and first switch on the WLAN

security.

See "Access points", p. 171.

Device name

— Enter a name for your device

that is shown to the other compatible devices in

the home network.

Copy to

— Select the memory where you want

to save copied media files.