Many of our customers need the ability to access external files, such as Excel or PDF and save the directly to their local machine while accessing our servers. This is easily done by following these steps:
Note: If you have already configured your local computer, you can skip to Step 2:
STEP 2: CONNECT TO YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER DRIVES FROM THE SERVER
STEP 1: CONFIGURE YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER TO ALLOW ACCESS TO YOUR DRIVES:
First, when connecting, be sure your PC is setup to allow, by following these steps:
1. Once you open REMOTE DESKTOP, click the "Options" or "Show Options" button at the bottom of the dialogue.
2. Next click, the "Local Resources" tab, followed by the "More" button at the bottom of the dialogue, under "local devices and resources"
3. Finally, expand the "Drives" option and select the Drive or Drives you wish to "share" and have access to from the server.
4. Once you are done, click the "OK" button and connect to the server.
Note: you should only need to do this one time, however it may be necessary to configure this for each computer you use to access our servers.
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