Chapter 14 Shares

This feature may be useful if you connect to the NSA occasionally from a remote location.

Note: Disable oplocks to improve the NSA’s performance unless you need to use the Windows offline file feature. If you do use the Windows offline file feature with the NSA, use it with a share containing only the files you need to access while offline.

In the Sharing > Shares screen, click Settings to open the Setting screen. Enable oplocks to support Windows offline file synchronization. Disable oplocks for better NSA performance.

Figure 173 Sharing > Shares > Settings

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 97 Sharing > Shares > Settings

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable oplocks

Select this to let Windows users make files on the NSA available

 

when they are not connected to it.

 

 

Disable oplocks

If you do not need files on the NSA to be available to offline

 

users for editing, turn off oplocks to improve the NSA’s

 

performance.

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

 

 

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

 

 

14.4.1 Using Windows Offline File Synchronization

To use Windows offline file synchronization, in Windows Explorer right click an NSA share and select Always available offline.

 

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