6. Accessing Your Ethernet Disk Over The Network
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LaCie Ethernet Disk
User’s Manual
6. Accessing Your Ethernet Disk Over The Network
Your LaCie Ethernet Disk appears as a drive with shared folders on the network. You can connect to the LaCie Ethernet Disk as
you would with any other server.
Important Info:
If you have just turned on the LaCie Ethernet Disk, it may take a few minutes for the server to
show up in the network.
6.1 Microsoft Windows Users
To access the LaCie Ethernet Disk using Microsoft Windows, look in
My Network Places
. By default, the LaCie Ethernet Disk
will be named
LACIE-XXXXXXXXX *
under
Workgroup
. When you attempt to access a share, you will be asked to enter a
username and a password.
Tech Note:
The default name for the LaCie Ethernet Disk will always be LACIE- followed by 9 random characters
(letters and numbers). This manual will refer to this default name as LACIE-XXXXXXXXX.
For faster time connections and usability, LaCie recommends that you map a drive to share. To map a drive to a share, select
the
Tools
menu from
Windows Explorer
. Click on
Map a drive
. Fill in the appropriate information and press
Finish
. This will
create a new drive mapped to your share (for more information about drive mapping, refer to your Windows manual).
6.1.1. Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP
For Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP users, if you cannot find the LaCie Ethernet Disk from your workstation,
try using the Windows search tool.
From the
Start
menu, select
Search
, and then click on
For Files or Folders
. In the
Search Results
window, select
Computers
. In
the
Search for Computers
dialog box, enter the server name and click the
Search Now
button. The server name is
LACIE-
XXXXXXXXX
by default.
Tech Note:
Windows Me Users –
To access your shares under Windows Me, the administrator will need to create
a user with the same username and password as your log in for Windows. This is due to a limitation in
Microsoft’s operating system.