Chapter 3: Connecting To The Smartstor; Setting Up A Network Drive On A Windows Pc - Promise Technology SmartStor NS4300N Product Manual

Chapter 3: Connecting to the SmartStor

• Setting up a Network Drive on a Windows PC (page 21)
• Setting up a Network Drive on a UNIX or Linux PC (page 24)
• Setting up a Network Drive on a Macintosh PC (page 28)
• Connecting a USB Printer to SmartStor (page 32)
• Setting up the Print Server on SmartStor (page 32)
• Setting up Windows Printing (page 33)
• Setting up Linux Printing (page 36)
• Setting up Macintosh Printing (page 38)
• Connecting a USB Drive (page 41)
• Disconnecting a USB Drive (page 44)
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 SmartSYNC for this purpose, see "Connecting a Network
Drive" on page 56. If your PC does not have SmartSYNC, 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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