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v1.0, October 2007
Chapter 2
Accessing Shares from Your Operating System
This chapter presents examples of how shares on the ReadyNAS 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 the
Network tab. 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