# Configuring the Microsoft Network Share for LAN Backups and Restores

Before you back up the LAN, you must configure the backup data store. Ensure the folder or drive to be used for LAN backups is shared with Read/Write permission to the "userid" configured in the NuPoint UM menu.

Note: To configure the network share for LAN backups and restores refer to in a Windows environment go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040.

To configure the Microsoft Network Share

1. On the target drive, set up the root directory for the NuPoint UM backup (for example, NUPOINT\SiteA) and click I Agree to continue.

2. Right-click the root folder and select Properties.

3. On the Sharing tab, select Share this folder.

4. After Share name, type the name of the root directory for the NuPoint UM backup (in this example, type NUPOINT\SiteA) and click OK.

5. Click Permissions. The Share Permissions window appears.

6. Under Group or user names, add the user ID/group that will need to access the NP-Backup directory.

7. Under Permissions for Everyone, after Allow, select the Full Control, Change, and Read check boxes to grant everyone full control of the NUPOINT\SiteA directory and click OK.

8. On the Security tab, add the user ID/group (the same group you selected in Step 6) that will need to access the NUPOINT\SiteA directory.

9. Under Permissions for Everyone, after Allow, select the Full Control, Modify, Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read, and Write check boxes to grant everyone full control of the NP-Backup folder and click OK.

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