Chapter 17 Shares

Table 108 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.

 

 

17.3.1 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 175 Shares > Add Share (or Edit Share)

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 109 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

 

4.4.6 on page 54 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.

 

 

 

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