Setting up a CIFS drive

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Setting up a CIFS drive

In Windows go to the Control Panel, choose System. In the System Properties, choose the tab Computer Name. Here you will see your Windows machine’s Full computer name and the Workgroup that it is part of.

Then go to your shared folder, in this example Shared Document. Right click on the folder with the mouse, and choose Sharing and Security...

Enable the option Share this folder on the network, and give the folder a name (in this example SharedDocs). You can use the folder as a read-only drive, or you can enable Allow network users to change my files for full write access. To activate these options, press OK.

Back in Zeta you add the name of the computer as you found it in Windows in Server Name. The same goes with the Workgroup and Share Name. Than you add that computer's IP address in Server IP Address, and at last your User Name and Password. Check Store Settings if Successful, so that you can get it listed in Previous Connections for later use.

Your Network Drive will now be mounted to the Desktop, and you can access it through the Tracker.

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