9-2 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N Users Guide
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To inform users about how to access the filer, perform the following steps:
1. Determine the connection methods that are correct for your CIFS clients.
2. If your CIFS clients can use methods 1, 3, and 4 to connect to the filer, inform
your users of the filers UNC path.
The UNC path consists of a computer name and a share name in the following
format:
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If the filer is named filer and the directory that contains users directories is
shared with the name "home," the UNC path is \\filer\home.
3. If your CIFS clients can use method 2 to connect to the filer, inform your users of
the filer name so that they can locate the filer in Network Neighborhood.
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After you provide users with information about how to access the filer, they can con-
nect to the filer, view directories, and read and write files.
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1 Windows 9x,
Windows NT 4.0 Map Network Drive
window (from
Windows Explorer)
Connect to the filer as a
network drive.
2 Windows 9x,
Windows NT 4.0 Network Neighbor-
hood Click the filer icon in the
Network Neighborhood
window.
3 Windows NT
3.51, Windows
for Workgroups
Connect Network
Drive window (from
the File Manager)
Connect to the filer as a
network drive.
4 Any operating
system that sup-
ports the
MS-DOS® com-
mand-line inter-
face and
supports the
net use
command
net use command Map a share to a drive
letter on the command
line. For example:
net use f:\\filer\home