Use this tool to scan the shares on your LAN. It generates a list of files on the LAN. This is useful to identify shares that are contained within other shares, and duplicate files on the network(s).

For more details, see the Knowledge Base article in “LAN Storage Discovery Overview”.

You can also view a file summary, which is a list of the files scanned on the LAN. You can view additional details about particular files (file duplication, etc.).

Additional LAN Storage Discovery Reports can also be generated using the information from the file summary.

To use the LAN storage discovery tool, follow the instructions in the sections below.