Iomega px4-400d, User Manual

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Access to Shares through NFS and User Permissions
When you access your px4-400d through NFS, the access permissions to content on the px4-400d are
controlled by Host-Based Access Control rules on your client computer, not by user access permissions
on your px4-400d. This means that any valid user on the Linux computer who has access to the host (the
storage device) can access Shares on the px4-400d, even if not given specific user permission to those
Shares on the device.
rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers
When you turn on this protocol, you enable the px4-400d Network Storage as an rsync server. It can then
be used as a source and/or destination device for rsync Copy Jobs. Because of the fast and efficient
nature of rsync, an rsync Copy Job can be faster than a Windows File Sharing Copy Job. For more
information on Copy Jobs, refer to
Backing Up Your px4-400d .
If you enable the px4-400d as an rsync server, you can optionally set up a user account on the px4-400d for
secure rsync Copy Jobs.
Configuring rsync server settings
1. To enable rsync server, click the switch on.
2. To create a secure user account, check Configure secure rsync credentials.
3. The username is preset as rsync. You can change this to a more meaningful user account name.
Enter a password and confirm it for the rsync user account name. When you create a secure
rsync user account on the px4-400d, you allow other devices to securely copy to or from it.
4. By default, rsync uses TCP port 873 for accepting requests. You can change this value to a
different port number, if desired.
5. Click Apply to save your settings.
To change any rsync server settings, click . You cannot enable rsync server if you have
already enabled SFTP .
Sharing Files
59 Using Protocols to Share Files