Quick Setup Guide - Scan2Maintenance

Welcome to the Scan2Maintenance Quick Setup Guide.

Please click on each step numbered 1, 2 & 3 to setup your installation.

Step : Setting up a shared network drive:

Prerequisites:

The Scanner Client computer is physically attached via USB to the Document scanner and has network access to Scanner Server. The Scanner Client computer does not require access to the Internet, however this is desirable for software updates.

The Scanner Server computer does not need to be physically connected via USB to the document scanner. The Scanner Server can be any computer which has network accessibility to the client computer. The Scanner Server computer must have access to the Internet.

Overview:

The Scanner Client and Scanner Server communicate with each other by a shared network folder. The shared network folder is a common location which can be read & write assessable by the Scanner Client and Server.

Procedure: The setting up of the shared network folder is identical for both Scanner Client & Server computers. The procedure will differ dependent on the Windows operating system. Windows XP, Window 7 & Windows 8 procedures are shown as follows.

To connect and disconnect a network drive in Microsoft Windows XP, you can use one of the four methods that are described in this article. You can map a drive letter to any shared resource on a network. When you do so, you can quickly and easily access the resource by using either the Windows XP user interface or a command prompt. For each mapped drive, an icon appears in My Computer and a listing appears in the left pane of Windows Explorer.

Connect a drive from My Network Places
1. Click Start, click My Network Places, click Entire Network, and then double-click Microsoft Windows Network.
2. Double-click the domain that you want to open.
3. Double-click the computer that has the shared resource you want to map. All the shared resources for that computer automatically appear in the window.
4. Right-click the shared drive or folder that you want to map, and then click Map Network Drive.
5. Click the drive letter that you want to use, and then specify whether you want to reconnect every time that you log on to your computer.

Note: Network drives are mapped by using letters starting from the letter Z. This is the default drive letter for the first mapped drive you create. However, you can select another letter if you want to use a letter other than Z.
6. Click Finish.

A windows opens that displays the contents of the resource you mapped.

Connect a drive from My Computer or Windows Explorer
1. To connect a drive from My Computer, click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Explore.

To connect a drive from Windows Explorer, right-click Start, and then click Explore.
2. On the Tools menu, click Map Network Drive.
3. In the Drive box, click a drive letter.
4. In the Folder box, type the UNC path for the server and shared resource in the following format: \\server name\share name. You can also click Browse to find the computer and shared resource.
You can map shared drives and shared folders. When you access a shared drive or folder you can also access subfolders if you have the appropriate permissions. However, you cannot map a drive for a subfolder that is not explicitly configured as a shared resource.

Use the Net Use command to map or disconnect a drive
You can use the net use command for batch files and scripts. To use the net use command to map or disconnect a drive:

• To map a network drive:
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type cmd.
3. Type net use x: \\computer name\share name, where x: is the drive letter you want to assign to the shared resource.

• To disconnect a mapped drive:
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type cmd.
3. Type net use x: /delete, where x: is the drive letter of the shared resource.

Disconnect from a mapped network drive
1. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
2. Right-click the icon for the mapped drive.
3. Click Disconnect.

Note: When you disconnect from a mapped drive, you remove the mapped drive letter that you assigned to the shared resource. You can still access the resource from My Network Places.

When you create a shortcut to a shared folder in Windows 7 or computer on a network (also called mapping a network drive), you can get to it from Computer or Windows Explorer without having to look for it or type its network address each time.

1.Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.

2.Click Map network drive.

The Map Network Drive dialog box3.In the Drive list, click a drive letter.

You can choose any available letter.

4.In the Folder box, type the path of the folder or computer, or click Browse to find the folder or computer.

To connect every time you log on to your computer, select the Reconnect at logon check box.

5.Click Finish.

Your computer is now connected, or mapped, to the network drive.

Note: If you can't connect to a network drive or folder, the computer you're trying to connect to might be turned off or you might not have the correct permissions. If you can't connect, contact your network administrator.
You can also create shortcuts to Internet locations, such as websites or FTP sites. Here’s how to do that:

1.Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.

2.Right-click anywhere in the folder, and then click Add a network location.

3.Follow the steps in the wizard to add a shortcut to a location on your network, a website, or an FTP site.

To map a shared folder or a network drive with our network to our computer, we use the Map Network drive. When we use locally connected computers in our home network we always prefer to share our files with other computer devices for eliminating the requirement of manually copying the file to external storage media and after that transfer them to other computers. It will be helpful when we want to quickly access a network drive or a shared folder without remembering the complete path of the location.

In Windows 8 if you want to map any remotely shared folder as a network drive to your local computer, you have to follow certain steps shown below:

Step 5: Click on "Browse" to select a network drive of the folder; otherwise if you know the folder or drive you can type it directly into the "Folder" text box