Addonics Technologies NAS2XU2 User Manual

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To list the NAS drive in Network Places

Go to Network Places in Windows XP, under Network Tasks, click on the “Set

up a home or small office network”. Follow the wizard and once completed,

reboot your system.

For Vista and Windows 7, enable file sharing when accessing the NAS over

the network.

To access Samba PUBLIC folder of NAS2XU2 in Ubuntu 8.04

First, using the console get the prerequisites for the samba file system:

$ sudo aptitude install samba smbfs

$ mkdir /mnt/NAS

$ sudo mount.cifs //NAS__IP_address/Public /mnt/NAS -o username=Guest

To access Samba PUBLIC folder of NAS2XU2 in Mac OS X

1.

Start at the "Go" drop down menu at the top of your screen,

then click "Connect to server".

2.

Type into the "Server Address" field 'smb://' followed by the

IP address of the NAS2XU2 you want to connect.

3.

Click the "Connect" button in the bottom right corner of the

window.

4.

Enter in a username and password. Click the "OK" button in

the bottom right hand corner of the window to finish.

Note: The workgroup name needs to be the workgroup the

PC belongs to. If you don't know the workgroup that the PC

belongs to you can find out by right clicking on the "My

Computer" desktop icon on the PC, selecting "Properties"

and then selecting the "Computer Name" tab. The work

group name is about half way down the window.

5.

Select the "share" you are after. This simply refers to a

particular group of shared files. Click "OK".

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