Collaborative NAS

To make working together in such a large team possible, we use a NAS to share files and resources. To connect to this NAS you need to use SMB to mount the drive on your computer.

Windows SMB Connection

In file explorer, right click "Network" in the sidebar, then click "Map network drive".

Now enter in the server SMB uri "\\192.168.69.20\main", the drive letter doesn't matter, select "Connect using different credentials".

Enter in these credentials

Username

quser

Password

noquestions

Done! You should now see the drive show up in file-explorer, and it should act like you have another drive plugged into your computer.

MacOS SMB Connection

From the Finder menu, click Go.

Click Connect to Server from Go’s drop down menu.

Alternatively, you can also press Command+K to launch Connect to Server.

In the Server Address field, enter smb://192.168.69.20/main

To add the server to your Favorite Servers list, click the ‘+’ button.

Click Connect to connect to the share.

When prompted, enter this username and password combo

Username

quser

Password

noquestions

Click Connect to connect to the server.

Violà! Once the connection is made, the share you have access to will appear on your desktop

Disaster! Backup NAS

In the case of a catastrophic failure, we have hot-spare ready to go which should be a 1-1 copy of the primary server. This backup server is using hard-drives, making for a much less responsive editing experience, but it will work. It is a bi-directional sync, so if the primary server starts up again, all of the changes will sync back to it.

To connect to the backup server, complete the exact same steps as for the primary NAS, but replace the IP "192.168.69.20" with the backup NAS's IP "192.168.69.19".