Chapter 16 Shares

Table 104 Sharing > Shares (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Share Path

This field displays the share’s file path, for example, volume1/music.

 

 

Share Owner

This is the name of the user account to which this share belongs.

 

 

Permission Type

This field displays the access permission of a share.

 

Everyone on the network can access a Public share.

 

Only the share owner can access a Private share.

 

An Advanced share allows you to assign specific access rights (read-only for example)

 

to individual users/groups.

 

 

16.3.1 Adding or Editing Share

Click Add Share to create a new share. In the Shares screen, select a share and click Edit Share to open the following screen. Use this screen to create or edit a share.

Figure 171 Shares > Add Share (or Edit Share)

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 105 Shares > Add Share (or Edit Share)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Share Name

Type a share name from 1 to 239 single-byte (no Chinese characters allowed for example)

 

ASCII characters. The name cannot be the same as another existing share. See Section

 

3.4.6 on page 41 for more information on share names.

 

 

Volume

You should have already created volumes (a single accessible storage area with a single

 

file system) on the NSA. Select the one that contains the folder that you want to share out.

 

You cannot modify this when editing a share.

 

 

Make this share

Select the administrator or user account that can own (manage) this share. The share

owned by

owner controls access rights to the share.

 

 

Enable this share

Click this to allow access to this share.

 

 

Enable Recycle

Click this to activate the recycle bin. When you delete a file from this share, a recycle

Bin

folder is created to store the deleted item.

 

 

Publish this share

This shows only when you enable the Media Server (Section 9.5 on page 178).

to Media Server

Select this option to have the NSA share files in this folder with media clients. When you

 

 

publish a share, you can also select whether or not to publish music tracks, photos, and

 

videos. The media clients do not have to use a password to play the shares you publish.

 

 

 

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