Adding and Configuring Drives

When you clock on the ”New Drive“ button in the Drive Manager you will get a drive configuration window like the one shown at the right. There are a few fields which you must configure to make a connection.
Drive Type
ExpanDrive currently supports connections to SFTP servers using SSH, or FTP/FTPS. This lets you select which type of connection this drive will be.Server:
Enter the address of the server you’d like to connect to here. The address can be given either by name (server.yourdomain.com
) or by IP address (192.168.1.1)
.
Username:
Enter the username for the account that you would like to connect to on the remote server. This might be different than the username on the local computer.Password:
The password is needed to log into the remote computer. If you do not enter a password, then you will be prompted for a password each time you connect to the remote server. Passwords a stored securely in the OS X system Keychain.Drive Name:
The Drive Name is a nickname for this particular connection. The Drive Name will be displayed in the Drive Manager as a label for this drive. Also, when connected, the remote server will be mounted as a directory in/Volumes/
with the name given in this field. If no Drive Name is entered, then the Server will be used as the drive name.