32
Networ
k
A
dd
ress Trans
l
ation (NAT) router to ma
p
a
p
u
bl
ic IP a
dd
ress to t
h
e
NAS
d
rive’s private IP a
dd
ress on t
h
e LAN.
N
FS Server Settin
g
Y
ou can enable or disable NFS server support
.
I
f
you have only Windows PCs on your home network and have no pressing
reason to use NFS su
pp
ort to share fi les, then
y
ou can normall
y
leave this
box unchecked in order to
f
ree up system resources
f
or other servers.
NFS and Samba per
f
orm similar
f
unctions
f
or
fi
le sharing. The main
di
ff
erence is the Windows PCs have Samba-compatible clients and servers
as
art of their default network su
ort. Conversel
, UNIX s
stems usuall
come with NFS by de
f
ault, with Samba being used to provide
fi
le sharing
w
ith Windows P
C
s
.
Note that the NA
S
drive has
S
amba enabled at all times.
G
uest Access Sett
i
ng
When Guess Access is enabled,
y
ou can access the “
g
uest-share” folder b
y
logging in with the username “guest-share” and leaving the password
fi
eld
blank. As explained earlier, the de
f
ault disk
f
ormat type FAT32 does not
su
pp
ort the
q
uota function.
Also, when Guest Access is enabled,
y
ou can access the
g
uest-share folder
v
ia FTP
b
y
l
ogging into FTP anonymous
l
y. W
h
en Guess Access is
d
isa
bl
e
d
,
anonymous FTP is not permitted.
Guest access is enabled by de
f
ault.
S
hare Mana
g
ement
Enter the main screen of Share Mana
g
ement b
y
selectin
g
Control Panel /
File and Print / Share Mana
g
ement. Here
y
ou are
p
resented entr
y
fi elds for
Share Name and Share Path. I
f
you want to create a new share,
fi
ll in these
fi elds directl
y
. The Share Name must be lower-case and ma
y
be a maximum
of 20 al
p
hanumeric characters, without s
p
aces. The Share Name must be
g
in
w
ith an alphabetic character.
A description o
f
this share may optionally be entered in the
fi
eld provided
.
I
f
you want to edit an existing share, select a share
f
rom the Existing Shares
box, and the Share Name, Path, and Descri
p
tion fi elds will fi ll in automaticall
y.
After com
p
letin
g
this form,
p
ress
S
av
e
to save the chan
g
es
y
ou have made
f
o
r thi
s
s
h
a
r
e
.