Akasa integral HDD external enclosure for data-storage mobility with LAN sharing User Manual page 13

Using the INTERGAL LAN in Network Mode
INTEGRAL LAN NDAS device can be used like a local drive on your PC. It allows you to:
• Drag and drop files to NDAS device.
• Copy and paste data to NDAS device.
• Create and delete folders.
• Share files and folders.
• Backup your data.
Sharing the INTEGRAL LAN on a Network
Once INTEGRAL LAN drive is connected to your network, it can be accessed from any computer on your
network.
To share your INTEGRAL LAN, you need:
• All computers and INTEGRAL LAN drive to be on the same local network
• INTEGRAL LAN connected via Ethernet or Wireless Router
• All computers on the network using the NDAS device must have the INTEGRAL LAN disk driver version
.1.x or later installed.
• NDAS device must be registered onto each computer.
Multiple-OS sharing:
• The INTEGRAL LAN can be shared by a mixture
of ME/000/XP and Mac computers
• Multiple computer can have READ ONLY access
simultaneously
• WRITE ACCESS is assigned to one computer at a
time and is passed from one computer to another
WARNING:
DO NOT perform disk operations (format, partition and chkdsk) when multiple PCs have the INTEGRAL
LAN drive mounted.
The INTEGRAL LAN device can be formatted, partitioned, chkdsk, aggregated or mirrored when ONLY
one PC is connected.
Click NDAS Device Management
Read/Write Mode
NOTE: If you cannot see your NDAS Device, please click Refresh Status and check again.
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Multiple-Write sharing:
• Windows XP/000 only network environment
• Multiple computer running XP or 000 can
have READ and WRITE access simultaneously
to see the registered NDAS device.
Network Connection
Read-Only Mode