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User Guide LOOQS MeeBox Router
Using your MeeBox as a network storage device
As a network-attached storage device, or NAS, your MeeBox can provide both shared
and private storage space to all the users on your network.
Storage space on your MeeBox is organized into two kinds of folders: private folders and
shared folders. Technically, both are called network shares, or just shares (although private
folders are not shared among users). Like folders on your computer’s own hard drive,
network shares can contain both files and folders.
A private folder is accessible only by its owner (the user whose username is the same as
the folder name). By contrast, a shared folder may be accessible by all users, some users,
or no users. You can control who has access to a shared folder on the Shared Folders
page of the admin interface (see Managing users, groups, and shares).
Out of the box, your MeeBox comes with one private folder, admin (owned by the server
administrator), and one shared folder, public. You can create more shared folders on the
Shared Folders page of the admin interface. To create a new private folder, simply create
a new user account.
On a Windows PC, you can view all available shares on your MeeBox by doing the
following:
1. On the Start menu, click Run. The Run dialog box opens.
2. Type \\meebox and press Enter (see Figure 9).
An Explorer window will open, showing all the shares on your MeeBox. Double-click a share
to open it. You will be prompted to enter the username and password of someone who
has access to the share. (You can always access the admin and public shares using the
admin account (default password ―meebox‖.)
Once you have opened a share, you can use it as you would a folder on your local hard
drive. For example, you can copy a file or folder into a share by dragging it from another
folder in Windows Explorer or your desktop and dropping it in the share.
Figure 9