You can share an encrypted drive over a network
It is possible to access encrypted drives across a network. To do this, create an Encrypted drive on your network drive and then mount it. Before other users can access the Encrypted drive, they will need to map the remote drive/folder in which the encrypted drive is created, on to their local machine as a mapped drive. After they have mapped the remote drive containing the Encrypted Drive File, users can use CryptArchiver on their local machine to load the Encrypted Drive.
In the interest of security and the integrity of the data, you can only load encrypted drives off a network drive that has been mapped.
To map a Network Drive
Mapping of a network drive is done by Windows. A mapped network drive is treated as a local drive.
Please follow these steps to map a network drive:
1. Before you can map a network drive, you must ensure that the drive is shared. On the remote computer, open My Computer, right-click on the drive, choose Sharing, and check Shared (set other options as desired). Make sure the remote computer appears on your local machine in Network Neighborhood or My Network Places. If it does not, you need to correct your network configuration.
2. On Windows 98, open Network Neighborhood. On Windows 2000 or Windows ME, open My Network Places, select Entire Network, and then double-click on the work group name (the default is simply the "Work group" setting). In either case, the computers on your network should appear as icons. The remaining steps are the same for both operating system versions.
3. Double-click the icon for the network computer containing the drive you want to map. All shared resources (drives, folders, and printers) should appear as icons.
4. Go to the drive on the server on which your Encrypted Drive File exists.
5. Right click on this drive and select "Map Network Drive".
6. Select the drive letter you wish to map it to. For example G:\
This completes the mapping of your drive.
After the drive is mapped, start CryptArchiver on your client machine and load the volume using the path of the mapped drive G:\
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Sharing over Networks
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