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

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

Client Access to Discs

The procedures for accessing your HP CD/DVD-ROM server are
similar to accessing any other workstation or file server. Users at
workstations (clients) on the network use the same procedures to
access both types of servers, For easy access to the discs 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 discs (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
workstation by one administrator or installer first. Then any
configuration 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. Then, the administrator may
want to set up all the clients with access to the discs, without access
to the configuration files stored on the server. Choices for the latter
setup include mapping all the discs in the server and mapping each
drive or disc volume separately.
The procedures for mapping drives require you to select an access
point. We recommend consulting the description of access points
and the server's file system, in the reference chapter starting on
page 7-1, before proceeding.
This section gives you examples of how to set up access to the server
from clients for Windows 95/98, 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.