Scanning for shares on the LAN

The first step in the LAN Storage Discovery process is to scan your LAN for available shares. You must configure the range of your network that will be analyzed. The range can include a network provider, domain, or computer. A list of credentials can also be provided for the process.

If the shared path can be retrieved, the discovery process automatically analyzes the overlapping of shares. By default, overlapped shares will be disabled for scanning to avoid false duplication counting.

LAN Storage Discovery on Windows DS-Client supports the following:

LAN Storage Discovery on Linux and Mac DS-Clients supports the following:

NOTE: Soft links and device files will be silently skipped. Hard links will be treated as regular files. If two hard links point to the same file, they will be considered as duplicates of each other.

1. On the Tools menu, point to LAN Storage Discovery, and then click Share Discovery.

a) In the Path box, type the IP address or name of the computer on your network that you want to discover.

NOTE: For Linux or Mac DS-Clients, you must include the connection protocol before the IP address or computer name. For example, UNIX-SSH\10.123.45.6 or UNIX-SSH\localhost).

b) For Linux DS-Clients, once the protocol is specified, the following options are available depending on the network protocol selected:

• Ask for credentials – Prompts you to type a valid user name and password for the selected network resource.

• Ask For NAS API credentials (NAS only) – Prompts you to type valid connection information for the selected NAS protocol.

• sudo as an alternate user (UNIX-SSH only) – Shows the credentials that the DS-Client will use to access data on the network resource. After successful login to the remote source, sudo will be performed to use these credentials.

• Advanced Connection Option (UNIX-SSH only) – This is the default for the DS-Client to run a PERL script. To edit the settings, click [...], and then type the path to the script language on the target computer.

c) In the Filter box, type the filter you want to apply to the list of items in the network tree. For example, you can enter the first letters of the computer name you want. This feature does not support wild card characters.

NOTE: To select all the filtered shares that meet the criteria, select the Select All Filtered check box.

d) To add an item to the scan, select the item, and then click Add.

e) 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:

1. Prepare a text file with a simple list of computer IP addresses / names on separate lines.

2. Click Import and browse for the text file. When you open the file, the DS-Client will ping each address in the list and check the connectivity. You can skip or include all the addresses that failed to respond.

f) To remove a item from the discovery list, select the item, and then click Remove.

g) To remove any previously scanned shares with a scanned size of 0, select the Clean share list check box.

a) To add credentials for the LAN share discovery process, click Add.

b) To edit credentials, select the credentials, and then click Modify.

NOTE: To delete credentials, select the credentials, and then click Delete.

c) In the Connect as box, type the user name

d) In the Password box, type the password.

e) In the From box, if applicable select the computer where the DS-Client will verify your credentials. Normally this will be the same as the server that you are connecting to. However if the computer running DS-Client is a member of a domain, you can select from the available list of domains.

f) In the Priority box, enter the priority for the credentials that the DS-Client will use to attempt to scan the shares. The lower the number, the higher the priority.

h) If you have already scanned the LAN, each scanned share has been assigned the best suited credentials. To overwrite these credentials, select the Overwrite existing share credentials check box.