User manual SEAGATE MAXTOR SHARED STORAGE DRIVE

[. . . ] NETWORK STORAGE Shared Storage Drive User's Guide P/N: 20267900 Limited Warranty Statement inside i Maxtor Shared Storage Drive - One Year Limited Warranty Maxtor's warranty obligations are limited to the terms set forth below: Please note that Maxtor reserves the right to update from time to time the warranty terms provided for new purchases of Maxtor products, and to establish the effective date of those updated warranty terms. Please refer to www. maxtor. com for the then current form of Limited Warranty Statement for Maxtor brand products. Please note that Maxtor products are distributed outside the United States and Canada through local authorized distributors and resellers ("Resellers"). These Resellers generally offer a consumer warranty, and associated warranty services, to consumer purchasers. [. . . ] When the Setup Completed message appears, click Open. For more information about access privileges and other advanced features of your Shared Storage Drive, see "Advanced Settings" on page 13. Using Your Drive 9 Using the Drag and Sort Feature In addition to including a set of folders to help you organize your files, your Shared Storage Drive also includes a time-saving new feature called Drag and Sort. With Drag and Sort, every time you drag common files to your Shared Storage Drive, each file is automatically sorted into the appropriate folder based on its file type. The Drag and Sort feature supports over 100 common file types, including . doc, . ppt, . jpg, . xls, . html and more!Here's an Example: Using External USB drives with your drive There are two USB ports on the back of your drive which allow you to connect USB hard drives, such as the Maxtor OneTouchTM and Personal Storage 5000 drives. The Maxtor Shared Storage Drive is only compatible with USB drives that are formatted with the FAT32* file system. *With the FAT32 file system, the size of a single file is limited to 4 GB on this type of partition. Connecting a USB drive You may connect a USB drive while your Shared Storage Drive is on. It will automatically recognize the drive. You may also connect a USB drive while your Shared Storage Drive is off. It will be recognized the next time you turn your Shared Storage Drive on. Accessing the external USB drive 3 1. Select a Microsoft Word document, a JPEG image file, and an MPEG video file. Drag and drop the files onto the desktop icon of your Shared Storage Drive. The files are automatically sorted into the appropriate folders: · The Microsoft Word document is placed into: My Documents · The JPEG image is placed into: My Photos · The MPEG video is placed into: My Movies 1. Open your Shared Storage Drive by double-clicking its desktop icon. Your external USB drive will appear as a folder on the Shared Storage Drive. The name of this folder will correspond to the volume name of your external USB drive. By clicking and dragging files, they are copied. However, by right-clicking and dragging, you can choose to either copy or move the files. The Drag and Sort feature is only supported on a PC on which the Quick Start software has been installed. 10 Disconnecting a USB drive To disconnect a USB drive from your Maxtor Shared Storage Drive: Using USB Printers with your drive You may connect a USB printer to your Shared Storage Drive and share it with anyone on your network. 1. Go to the Maxtor Shared Storage Drive home page. See "To access the Shared Storage Drive home page:" on page 13. 2. Click Unplug USB devices from the Shared Storage Drive. Click the Safely Remove button, next to the USB drive you want to disconnect. A message will appear informing you that your drive can be safely removed. Although most USB printers should work, no compatibility information is available at this time. With multi-function printers, only the printing will work when connected to the Shared Storage Drive. Connecting a USB printer · Connect the USB printer while your Shared Storage Drive is on. · The printer will appear in the list of shares displayed in the Printers and Faxes folder on your Shared Storage Drive. [. . . ] If you are not the administrator of your Shared Storage Drive, ask your administrator to change your password for you. · Your Windows Logon name is not recognized by the Shared Storage Drive, thus only providing you guest access rights. If you are not the administrator of your Shared Storage Drive, ask your administrator to create a user account for you. To make your Shared Storage Drive logon name easy to remember, use the same name and password as your Windows Logon. 4 Figure 10. [. . . ]