Chapter 3: connecting to the smartstor, Setting up a network drive on a windows pc, Chapter 3: connecting to the smartstor, cont – Promise Technology SMARTSTOR NS4300N User Manual

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Chapter 3: Connecting to the SmartStor

Setting up a Network Drive on a Windows PC (page 27)

Setting up a Network Drive on a UNIX or Linux PC (page 31)

Setting up a Network Drive on a Macintosh PC (page 35)

Connecting a USB Printer to SmartStor (page 39)

Setting up the Print Server on SmartStor (page 40)

Setting up Windows Printing (page 41)

Setting up Linux Printing (page 44)

Setting up Macintosh Printing (page 47)

Connecting a USB Drive (page 49)

Disconnecting a USB Drive (page 51)

Setting-up Apple iTunes (page 52)

To copy files to and from a folder on the SmartStor, you must make the folder a
network drive on your PC.

To use the SmartStor as a print server, you must connect the USB printer, enable
SmartStor’s print server, and set up printing on your PC.

Setting up a Network Drive on a Windows PC

You can also use SmartNAVI for this purpose, see “Mounting a Share Folder /
Creating a Network Drive” on page 90
. If your PC does not have SmartNAVI, use
the following procedure to setup a Network Drive with My Network Places.

Using the SMB protocol, SmartStor supports up to 16 concurrent connections.

To setup a network drive:

1.

On the Windows desktop, double-click the My Network Places icon.

2.

Click the Search button in the toolbar.

If the Search button is not shown, from the View menu, choose Toolbars,
then Standard Buttons.

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