Creating A Home / Office Network - Sharing Your Net-Box; Sharing Your Printers; Sharing Your Hard Drives - Axentra net-box Getting Started Manual

Axentra™ Net-Box Getting Started Guide
Creating a home / office network – sharing your Net-Box
With your Axentra Net-Box as the heart of your digital world, you can connect and share all of your
devices.
Once your computers are connected to Net -Box , you can seamlessly transfer files between the
computers on your local network. To enable this feature, place a checkmark in the "Share your Axentra
Server home folders on the network" checkbox
found under the Local Network / Windows Networking page of the Axentra Administration Center.
You can set the name of the Windows Workgroup used to connect to these files in the "Windows
Workgroup" text field. The default is "WORKGROUP".
Sharing your printer
You can plug a USB or parallel port printer into your Axentra Server and share it with the computers on
your local network. Connect the printer to the port on the back of your Server. To use the printer from
your client computer, consult your client computer's documentation for how to connect a Network Printer.
The server in this case will be your Net -Box . Follow the steps to add a Network Printer, and find your
printer listed under your Axentra Server. The driver for your printer will be installed on your client
computer (not on your Net -Box). If the driver is not available on your client computer, you will need to
install it from the CD that came with your printer or get it from your printer manufacturer's support Web
site.

Sharing your hard drives

External USB hard drives can also be hot-plugged into the Server. The space available will automatically
be added to your users' available space. If it was formatted on your Net-Box , each user can access only
their own files on the drive, through a folder called 'USB drive' in their account. If it was formatted on a
different computer, all the files will be visible by all users through Common/USB Drive.
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