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4 Working with Shared Folders
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4 . In the Drive list, select t he drive letter that you want to assign to the shared
folder .
5 . To automatically connect to this shared folder each time you log on t o Windows,
select
Reconnect at log on .
If you clear this option, you must repeat this procedure each time you wan t to
access
the shared folder .
6. Click Finish .
7 . If prompted, enter your user name and password for accessing this shared
folder
, and then click OK .
Note: If the user name and password for accessing the shared folder are
the same as your Windows user name and password, you are not promp t ed to
provide a user name and password to access the shared f older .
In addition, once you provide your user name and password for accessing
one shared folder , you are not prompted to provide it again when you access
other
shared folders to which you have access rights.
If t he guest user has access to this shared folder , you can use guest as both
the user name and password.
You can now access the shared folder from My Computer/Windows Explorer .
Lin ux users
To access a shared folder on a computer running Linux:
1 . Create a directory by entering the following command at the command prompt:
mkdir /my_directory
where my_directory is the name o f the directory .
Be sure to include the full path to the directory (for example,
/mnt/my_directory ).
2 . If desired, display a list of all the available shared folders by entering the
following
command:
showmount -e storage_system
where storage_system is the IP address of the storage system .