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Network Share Management The primary purpose of network storage is file sharing. In a standard operation environment,
you can create different network share folders for various types of files, or provide different
file access rights to users or user groups. By factory default, a “public” share folder is
created. The share folder gives full access to all users or guests.
Administer network shares with the following:
• Create a Network Share
• Change the name, path and comment of a network share
• Set access right for a network share
• Remove a network share
You can create new network shares according to your needs. While creating a network share
the following parameters must be set:
• Network Share Name
The network share name must not exceed 12 characters. It cannot contain double-byte
characters (such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) as well as the characters listed below:
" . + = / \ : | * ? < > ; [ ] %
• Disk Volume
The network share will be created under the specified disk volume.
• Path
All data are stored under the assigned path onto the disk volume. You can select Specify
Path Automatically to allow the server to automatically create a new path on the disk
volume to store the network share files. Or you can assign a specific path for the share
folder. The manually assigned path cannot exceed 256 characters and cannot contain the
characters listed below:
" \ : | * ? < > ; ` '
• Comment
The Comment field allows a brief description of the share folder to help users identify its
purpose in a network neighborhood window. The comment cannot exceed 128 characters.
Once the network share is created, you can start assigning access rights to users or user
groups:
• Full Access
Full access allows the user or user group to read, write, create, or remove all files and
directories in the network share.
• Read Only
Reads files only in the network share but denies functions to write, create or delete files or
directories.