Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics

The following table describes the labels in the this screen.

Table 14 File Browser > Configure Share

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Share Name

Configure a name to identify this share. 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 local share. See Section 4.4.6 on page 59 for more information

 

on share names. This is not configurable for the NSA’s default admin, music, photo,

 

public, and video shares.

 

 

Volume

This shows the volume the share is on. It is read-only.

 

 

Make this share

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

owned by

owner controls access rights to the share. This is not configurable for the NSA’s default

 

admin and public shares.

 

 

Enable This Share

Select this option to allow users to access this share. When this option is not selected,

 

you cannot see and access this share.

 

 

Enable Recycle Bin

Select this option to keep deleted items in a recycle bin. When you delete an item, a

 

recycle folder is created within the share, and the deleted item is stored in the recycle

 

bin. Later if you want to retrieve a deleted item, you can select the item from the recycle

 

folder and move/copy the item to another share.

 

 

Publish this share

Select this option to make the share’s files available to media clients.

to Media Server

 

 

 

Publish this share

Select this option to let people use a web browser to access this share’s files without

to Web

logging into the Home screens.

 

 

Share Access

Select who can access the files in the share and how much access they are to be given. If

 

you publish the share to the media server or the web, all users will have at least read-

 

only access to the share, regardless of what you configure here.

 

Select Keep it private to owner to allow only the share owner to read files in the share,

 

delete files in the share and save files to the share.

 

Select Make it public to allow anyone (with or without a user account on the NSA) to

 

read files in the share, delete files in the share and save files to the share.

 

Select Advanced to select which individual users can read the share’s files, which users

 

can delete the share’s files, and which users are blocked from doing either.

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

 

 

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

 

 

4.4.6 Share and Folder Names

The name can only contain the following characters:

•Alphanumeric (A-z, 0-9) and Unicode.

The NSA allows FTP access to shares, folders or files with names encoded in the UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) format. So your FTP client must support UTF-8 in order to access shares, folders or files on the NSA with Unicode names.

•Spaces

•_ [underscores]

•. [periods]

•- [dashes]

Other limitations include:

• All leading and trailing spaces are removed automatically.

 

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