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LaCie Professional Server 

AFP Shares

Technical Brief: Shared Folders 

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7.  The SMB Shared Folder has been migrated to AFP (

Fig. 17

). You 

can access the Shared Folder settings or change its properties 
by clicking 

Modify...

8.  To access or modify the properties of the Shared Folder, select 

it and click 

Modify...

2.2.2. Creating a new AFP Share in 

ExtremeZ-IP Administrator

1.  Log in to your LaCie professional server as an administrator.

2.  Launch 

ExtremeZ-IP  Administrator

Start>ExtremeZ-IP  Ad-

ministrator

.

3.  Click

 Volumes

.

4.  Click 

Create

.

5.  Select 

the 

target 

volume 

(

Computer>DATA

 

or 

Computer>SWAP

), then choose an existing folder or 

Make a 

new folder

 (

Fig. 18

). Click 

OK

.

The Shared Folders created in ExtremeZ-IP Administrator are only 
accessible to Mac users since they are not SMB. Shared Folder prop-
erties may be changed in 

Volumes>Modify

.

Fig. 17 

Fig. 18 

Summary of Contents for 12big Rack Fibre 8

Page 1: ...2 1 Creating SMB and NFS Shares 4 2 2 Creating AFP Shares 14 2 2 1 Migrate an Existing SMB Shared Folder 14 2 2 2 Creating a new AFP Share in ExtremeZ IP Administrator 16 2 2 3 Spotlight Support on AF...

Page 2: ...omissions in this document or from the use of the informa tion contained herein LaCie reserves the right to make changes or revisions in the product design or the product manual without reser vation a...

Page 3: ...hared Folders page 3 1 Administrator In order to review confirm or redefine the software settings on your LaCie professional server you must have Administrative rights to the device Click a topic Crea...

Page 4: ...ain Windows Storage Server services must be installed in order to set Shared Folders File Services for SMB shares and Services for Network File System for NFS shares Both services are installed on you...

Page 5: ...FS Permissions If you do not want to make changes to NTFS permissions skip the next step IMPORTANT INFO LaCie highly recommends that customers choose to manage their Shared Folders using either Share...

Page 6: ...l choose a Share name When selecting both pro tocols create different share names to avoid resolution issues 10 Click Next to move to SMB Settings 11 SMB Settings allow you to add a description to a S...

Page 7: ...ions for the SMB Shared Folder Fig 04 such as read write access for users and groups To assign custom permissions choose Users and groups have custom share permissions and click Permis sions 14 Click...

Page 8: ...dd specific Linux workstations by DNS name Fig 05 TECHNICAL NOTE Additional settings are available for advanced NFS configurations Go to Server Manager Roles File Services and right click on Share and...

Page 9: ...ended Limit or a small Extension of the Shared Folder size TECHNICAL NOTE There are predefined quota templates in Quota Policy However to create custom quota templates or to en ter an email address fo...

Page 10: ...s in File Screen Policy As well custom file policy tem plates may be created in File Server Resource Manager that can fur ther limit the file types on a Shared Folder To set your custom file pol icy t...

Page 11: ...ublishing enables you to publish the Shared Folder in a DFS Namespace Fig 08 see Technical Brief DFS Namespace The DFS Namespace may exist on your LaCie professional server or another server on the ne...

Page 12: ...iew Settings and Cre ate Share to make certain that the settings are correct Fig 09 To make adjustments choose Previous To execute the set tings click Create You will see a Confirmation once the Share...

Page 13: ...d Folders go to Server Manager Roles File Services and click once on Share and Storage Management Fig 11 To edit the parameters of a Shared Folder double click on its name You will find tabs and optio...

Page 14: ...rate an Existing SMB Shared Folder This is the most convenient method of sharing data via AFP when a Shared Folder must include the SMB protocol An existing SMB Shared Folder must be available to perf...

Page 15: ...ick Yes to the Volumes window prompt Fig 15 6 Another Volumes window will appear warning that permissions set for the SMB shares do not apply to AFP shares Fig 16 In general you will manage AFP share...

Page 16: ...a new AFP Share in ExtremeZ IP Administrator 1 Log in to your LaCie professional server as an administrator 2 Launch ExtremeZ IP Administrator Start ExtremeZ IP Ad ministrator 3 Click Volumes 4 Click...

Page 17: ...Z IP Administrator 1 Log in to your LaCie professional server as an administrator 2 Launch ExtremeZ IP Administrator Start ExtremeZ IP Ad ministrator 3 Click Settings 4 Select the Search tab 5 To enab...

Page 18: ...an individual AFP volume return to the ExtremeZ IP Administrator main page Click once on Volumes 8 Select the AFP volume and click Modify 9 Check the box next to Support Spotlight Searching By de fau...

Page 19: ...r LaCie professional server as an administrator 2 Launch ExtremeZ IP Administrator Start ExtremeZ IP Ad ministrator 3 Click once on Volumes a Click once on the AFP Shared Folder that will be used for...

Page 20: ...her options will turn grey indicating that they are no longer available Fig 22 6 You may also set general capacity quotas for the Time Machine Shared Folder by checking the box next to Limit users wit...

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