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Special considerations when mapping a drive letter:
If you change the name of your media vault, you will enter the new name instead of HPMediaVault in
step
4
above.
When mapping drive letters to Shared Folders that are password protected, you must
complete an
additional step: You will have to enter the Shared Folder
’
s password when
prompted. (For more
information on password protecting Shared Folders, see
Enhance security on your Shared Folders
.)
If your media vault is configured for user
-
based security and you map drive letters to Shared
Folders, you
might have to enter a username and password. You will not have to enter a
username and password if you
have already logged onto your Windows PC with a
username/password. (For more information on user
-
based mode, see
Enhance
security on your Shared Folders
.)
If you mapped a drive letter, but now want to disconnect it:
1. Click
Start, All Programs, Accessories, Windows Explorer, My Computer
.
2.
Right
-
click on the icon for the mapped drive.
3. Click
Disconnect
.
This only removes the drive letter; you can still access the resource
from My Network Places.
Map a drive letter using Windows Vista
Before taking the following steps be sure that Network discovery is turned on. For more information, see
Ensure
that Network Discovery is turned on
.
1. Click
Start
menu,
Computer
.
2.
In the tool bar, click
.
3.
Mapping drives usually defaults to the letter
Z:
, but you can
select another drive letter by following the
next two steps:
a.
To view a list of available drive letters, click the
Drive
drop
-
down list.
b.
Click a drive letter to select it.
4.
To enter the Shared Folder in the
Folder
box, you have
two options:
Click the
Browse
button and then use
Browse For Folder
to locate
the Shared Folder. After you
find the folder, click to highlight it, and then
click
OK
. The path to the folder will appear in the
Folder
dialog box.
In the
Folder
box, use the
Uniform
Naming Convention
(UNC) to enter the path to the Shared
Folder you want to
map. For example: enter
\\HPMediaVault\FileShare
(HPMediaVault
is the
device name; FileShare is the name of the Shared Folder.)
5. Select
Reconnect at logon
. Windows will re
-
establish the mapped drive every time you start Windows.
6. Click
Finish
.