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Once you install NetStorage, it will start automatically when you start your NetWare 6 server. If NetStorage is not accessible, restart the NetWare 6 server where NetStorage is installed. Also, the date and time on the server running NetStorage should be reasonably close (within a few hours) to the date and time on the machine being used to access NetStorage.
To access NetStorage, do the following:
Start your browser or Microsoft Web Folders and enter the URL for NetStorage.
The URL is http://server_ip_address/oneNet/NetStorage/. Replace server_ip_address with the IP address or DNS name of the NetWare 6 server where you installed NetStorage or the IP address you chose for the Apache-based services during the NetWare 6 installation.
If you specified a port number other than port 80 for Apache-based services during the NetWare 6 installation, you must also specify that port number with the URL.
For example, if the IP address for NetStorage is 127.1.1.1 and the port number is 51080, then you would specify 127.1.1.1:51080/oneNet/NetStorage/.
Enter your username and password.
NetStorage uses your eDirectory username and password, so you don't need to remember or use a separate username or password.
The NetStorage Web page displays the network files and folders currently accessible for each user. NetStorage reads the user's NetWare login script to determine drive mappings, reads eDirectory User object properties to determine the path to the user's home directory, and then displays a list of files and folders based on mapped drives and home directories.
If you specified alternate IP addresses or DNS names of servers in other eDirectory trees during the NetStorage installation, NetStorage reads the User object properties in the other eDirectory trees and displays those home directories also. This is useful if a user normally logs in to more than one eDirectory tree and you want that user to have access to additional home directories in different eDirectory trees using NetStorage. The User object name must be the same for each eDirectory tree.
NetStorage reads the container, profile and user login scripts only from the primary eDirectory server specified during the installation and displays the user's drive mappings only based on those login scripts.
Users might have specific eDirectory rights to certain files and folders on your network but will not be able to access those files and folders using NetStorage unless login script drive mappings exist to those folders or the files and folders are in the user's home directory. If you want to provide users with NetStorage access to a specific folder, you might have to add a drive mapping command to that folder in a login script (container, profile, or user).
You can use many of the same conventions for expanding and contracting folders and opening files that are available in Windows Explorer. To create new folders or copy, delete, rename, move, or download existing files or folders using a browser, click the Down arrow next to the file or folder.
Clicking the Folder View button in the browser window displays folders in another column and lets you expand and contract folders. The Text View only displays the files and folders in the current directory and does not let you expand or contract folders.
Local files and folders are not accessible using NetStorage. Also, mapping drives or changing login scripts is not permitted.
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