Accessing Your SAN Folder (H-Drive) from Your Smart Phone or Tablet

In our last edition of YATI YATA we showed how both you and your students can access your network drives from home on your own computer. Well, as the old saying goes, "There's an app for that!" Yes, an app that will allow you to access your network drives from your tablet or smartphone! This app is available for iPads and iPhones as well as Android tablets and smartphones. The instructions below were written using an iPad but should work similarly on other devices.

1. Tap App Store.

 2. Type "vmware horizon." When you see vmware horizon client, select it.

 3. Tap GET.

 4. Tap INSTALL.

 5. The app is installing.

 6. When the app installs, tap Open.

 7. On the Server Setup screen, type in "https://sbvdi.springbranchisd.com".

 8a. Employees, enter your SBISD network username and password, make sure the Domain is set to SBM1 (if you need to change the Domain, see step 8c) then tap Login.

8b. Students, enter your SBISD network username and password, make sure the Domain is set to SBS (if you need to change the Domain, see step 8c) then tap Login.

8c. If you need to change the Domain name, tap the Domain name and choose another Domain name.

 

9. You will then see this screen.

 10. The Windows desktop screen will appear.

 11. Once the icons are displaying on the desktop screen, tap the folder icon located at the bottom of the screen.

 12. Tap Computer.

 13. Tap your SAN Folder (H-Drive).

 14. Select the file you wish to open.

 15. The file will open and can be viewed/edited. If you open a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, it will open in OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office. You can make changes but when you save, it will save as an OpenOffice document instead of a Microsoft Office document. OpenOffice documents can be edited by Microsoft Office so no need to worry when opening the file later in Microsoft Office when on a district computer.

16. When finished, please be sure to log out.

17. To use this app later, tap this icon and repeat the steps for logging in and accessing your SAN Folder (H-Drive).