Scanning for shares on the LAN (Windows)
The first step in the LAN Storage Discovery process is to scan your LAN for available shares. You must configure the range (extent) of your LAN that will be analyzed. This range is a collection of items. Each item can be a network provider, a domain, or a computer. A list of credentials can be provided for the discovery / scanning process.
If the shared path can be retrieved, the discovery process automatically analyzes the overlapping of shares, if the shared path can be retrieved. By default, the overlapped shares will be disabled for scanning by default to avoid false duplication counting.
LAN Storage Discovery on Windows DS-Client supports the following:
• Microsoft Windows Network
• NetWare Services
• NFS
To discover Windows shares on your LAN:
1. On the Tools menu, point to LAN Storage Discovery, and then click Share Discovery.
2. In the Share Discovery Wizard, specify the computers on your network whose shares you want to discover in one of two ways:
• To add items individually, do one of the following:
a) Browse the Network Tree and select a computer, and then click Add.
b) Specify the IP address or computer name of the item you want to scan in the Path field, and then click Add.
The item appears in the Selected items for Discovery list.
• For large scan lists, it can be faster to import from a text file. To import a list of items from a text file, do the following:
c) Prepare a text file with a simple list of computer IP addresses / names.
d) Click Import and browse for the text file.
Once you open the file, Windows DS-Client will ping each address in the list and check the connectivity.
e) You can skip or include all the addresses that failed to respond.
The imported items appear in the Selected items for Discovery list.
3. To remove any previously scanned shares with a scanned size of “0”, select Clean share list.
4. Once you add all the network items you want to scan, click Next.
5. In the Additional Credentials section, click Add.
6. In the Set Credentials dialog box, type the credentials, and then click OK.
7. Input all the credentials you want to use for Share Discovery.
8. When the settings have been configured as required, click Finish.
The LAN Share Discovery Process window appears. When the process is complete, a list of the discovered shares will appear in
Tools >
LAN Storage Discovery >
Scan Shares: Share List (see
“Configuring scanned shares”).