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Chapter 16 Shares
Media Server User’s Guide
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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.
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.
Table 104 Sharing > Shares (continued)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
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
owned by
Select the administrator or user account that can own (manage) this share. The share
owner controls access rights to the share.
Enable this share Click this to allow access to this share.
Enable Recycle
Bin
Click this to activate the recycle bin. When you delete a file from this share, a recycle
folder is created to store the deleted item.
Publish this share
to Media Server
This shows only when you enable the Media Server (Section 9.5 on page 178
).
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.