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HP Data Vault User's Guide 
•  User account— If you have a User Account on the server, select Registered User, type 
the Name and Password that was created in the server's user account in the Windows 
Home Server Console, and click Connect. Check Remember this password in my 
keychain to remember your settings and automatically connect to the server in the future. 
•  Administrator account—Alternately, you can connect to the server using the server's 
administrator account. Select Registered User, type Administrator for the Name, and 
type the server's Password. The server's password was created the first time you installed 
the server software on a PC. 
4.  Navigate to the folder you want on the server. 
The folders that display depend on the Shared Folder Access settings for the guest account or 
user account that you used to connect to the server. To change Shared Folder Access settings, 
select Launch Home Server Console from the Server menu 
. Click the User Accounts tab and 
double-click the guest account or user account. Select the Shared Folder Access tab to change 
settings. Click OK to accept the changes. 
If you connected to the server using the Administrator account, you will see all of the server's 
shared folders. 
Connection Method B: Using Connect to Server and the Server 
Name 
Follow these steps to connect to Windows File Sharing (SMB) from Mac OS X 10.5 or later. SMB 
is the native sharing protocol for Microsoft Windows operating systems. 
1.  At the Mac computer, choose Go > Connect to Server… on the Apple menu bar. 
2.  Type the following Server Address: 
smb://ServerName/ShareName 
For example, type the following server address to connect to the music shared folder: 
smb://hpstorage/music 
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