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Chapter 2Accessing Shares from Your Operating System
This chapter presents examples of how shares on the ReadyNAS Duo device can be accessed by
the various operating systems. If you have problems accessing your shares, make sure to enable
the corresponding service by selecting Shares > Share Listing screen. Also make sure that the
default access of the share is set to Read-only or Read/write.

Windows

To see a share listing in Windows, either click Browse in RAIDar or enter //<hostname> or
//<ip_address> in the Explorer address bar. Hostname is the NAS hostname assigned in Network >
Global Settings. The default hostname is set to nas- followed by the last three hex bytes of the
device MAC address.
To access the share in Windows, specify the hostname followed by the share name in the Explorer
address bar, for example: //<hostname>/backup, as follows:
Figure 2-1