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Q150T - Instruction Manual
6.6
Setting up a Network connection
Connect the Q150T to your network as described on page 14.
You can view data files stored on the Q150 using Internet Explorer but to be able to
have read/write access you will need to use third party FTP software or Windows
Explorer. To use Windows Explorer, you will need to set up an exception for it on the
firewall (see below).
6.6.1
Configuring a Firewall Exception for Windows Explorer
To set up Windows Explorer:
1.
Right click on the network connection in the system tray.
2.
Select
Change Windows Firewall settings
from the popup menu.
3.
Select the
Exceptions
tab and click the
Add Programs
button.
4.
From the list select
Windows Explorer
. If this is not in the list, click on the
Browse
button and navigate to the file
explorer.exe
(this can be found in the
Windows
folder).
5.
Click on the
Change Scope
button.
6.
In the dialog select the
My network (subnet) only
option.
7.
Confirm your selections by clicking on the
OK
buttons in the open dialog boxes.
6.6.2
Connecting the Q150
To connect the Q150 to the network:
1.
From the Q150’s standby page (see Figure 3-1), select
Service | Connect
Network
on the menu bar.
2.
A dialog box confirms that the connection to the network is active and shows its IP
address (see Figure 6-12).
Figure 6-12.
Connecting the Q150 to a network
3.
Note the complete address line, for example:
ftp://10.1.1.92.
Type it into the
address bar of Windows Explorer on the networked PC. Click on the
Go
button or
press the Return key.
4.
The window status bar shows the message
connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx
followed by
getting contents of folder
. Windows Explorer displays a list of files stored on the
Q150.
You can copy files to or from the instrument. Only files supplied by Quorum or previously
copied or moved from the instrument should be transferred. A file cannot be opened
directly from the instrument; copy it to the networked PC before attempting to open it.
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