Client Access To Cds - HP J3278B - SureStore CD-ROM Server/Tower 7 NAS Server User Manual

1. Select Access
Point
2. Map Drives
Notes
4-2 Setup for Microsoft Networks (SMB)

Client Access to CDs

The procedures for accessing your HP CD-ROM server are
similar to accessing any other workstation or file server. Users
at workstations (clients) on the network use the same proce-
dures to access both types of servers, For easy access to the CDs
from applications, the server should be made available to each
client system—"mapped" to a drive letter on PC systems. After
the server is mapped, the client accesses the server, with its
CD-ROMs (and optionally its configuration parameters) just like
any other attached disk drive or networked file server.
The mapping described in this section can be done on one work-
station by one administrator or installer first. Then any configu-
ration tasks for the server setup can be done (described later in
"Configuring the Server" on page 4-11), before setting up all the
network clients according to the procedures in this section.
Different workstations need different points of access to the
server. The network administrator or installer, for example,
needs access to configure and monitor the server and to config-
ure access rights. Then, the administrator may want to set up all
the clients with access to the CDs, bypassing the configuration
and security files stored on the server. Choices for the latter
setup include mapping all the CDs in the server and mapping
each drive or CD separately.
The procedures for mapping drives require you to select an
access point. We recommend using the description of access
points and the file system used on the server, in the reference
chapter starting on page 7-2, before proceeding.
This section gives you examples of how to set up access to the
server from clients for Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows for
Workgroups, OS/2, and DOS.
The examples below assume that you have not changed the
server name for SMB: HP hhhhhh , where hhhhhh are the last
six digits of the server's LAN hardware (MAC) address. If
you have changed the server name (see page 4-12), that
assigned name appears instead.
You can set the configuration parameter ShowAllShares so
that the only files seen are the CDs. Then folders such as
config and root will not be seen when accessing the
server. However, these folders can still be accessed by manu-
ally inserting the path to the folder when mapping the drive.