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How to find online help, Using shares, Primary menu – Dell PowerVault 715N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) User Manual

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Primary Menu

The primary menu has the following tabs:

Welcome — Allows you to take a tour, set the administrator password, set a server appliance name, and set the

default page.

Status — Provides information about alerts and other status.

Network — Provides access to basic network setup tasks such as setting the appliance name, configuring

properties of network interfaces, configuring global network settings, setting IP addresses and ports for the

administration website, configuring Telnet, and changing passwords.

Disks — Allows you to configure disks and volumes, set disk quotas, and take persistent images.

Users — Enables you to manage local users and groups.

Shares — Enables you to manage local folders and create or modify file shares.

Maintenance — Allows you to perform maintenance tasks such as backup and restore, apply software updates,

check logs, change the language of the NAS Manager, and access the Terminal Services Advanced Client.

Help — Provides access to Windows Help for network attached storage.

How to Find Online Help

The NAS Manager provides two kinds of help. The NAS Manager online help documents NAS Manager content. The

Windows 2000 Help, which you can access through the Terminal Services on the Maintenance page, documents Windows

2000 content.

To access help in the NAS Manager, select one of two methods:

When you click Help on the primary menu, the NAS Manager screen is replaced by a split-screen Help screen that

has the Table of Contents of help topics on the left and the topic content on the right.

Click the ? icon at the far right of the primary menu to access the context-sensitive help topic related to the page

you are on.

In addition to the online help for your system, you can also access help for Microsoft Windows 2000 through Terminal

Services.

To start Windows 2000 Help, perform the following steps:

1. On the NAS Manager main menu, click Maintenance.

2. Click Terminal Services.

3. Log on to the system.

4. Perform one of the following procedures:

From the Start menu, click Help.

On the PowerVault Advanced Administration Menu, click Administrative Tools, and then click

Windows Powered Help.

Using Shares

A folder on your NAS appliance can be shared with other systems on the network, whether those systems are running a

Microsoft Windows operating system or a UNIX® operating system.

A NAS appliance supports the following methods of sharing folders: