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Accessing Share Folder from Windows Clients via Samba

NOTE: Make sure Samba service is enabled in System  Service, and Samba protocol is enabled in

Storage/Share  Share/Security  Share  Protocol Setting Windows(Samba).

Make sure the account that will be used to login the share folder has permission or already added in

Storage/Share  Share/Security  Share  Privilege. By default, all local NAS accounts, which belong to users

group, have read/write permission to share folders.

1. To access the share folder from Windows client PC, click Start then Run. Enter in the Open input

box as follows: \\x.x.x.x\share-name, where x.x.x.x is the NAS IP.

For example: \\192.168.99.127\share1

NOTE: You can also use the NAS host name, if DNS is setup in Network  Device Configuration and in DNS

server (NAS host name is added).

2. Enter the login account and password. If login account is a Windows domain account, use the

domain name followed by account name, such as Domain-name\Account-name. For example:

testdom\user1