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LaCie Professional Server 

SMB & NFS Shares

Technical Brief: Shared Folders 

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9.  In 

Share Protocols

 you choose the protocol(s) that will be used 

and the share name(s) (

Fig. 02

). Check the box or boxes that 

correspond  to  the  desired  protocol(s)  (SMB  and/or  NFS).  For 
each protocol, 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 SMB Shared 

Folder. To adjust the number of simultaneous users accessing 
the Shared Folder or to change the availability settings of offline 
folders, click 

Advanced...

12. Once finished with 

SMB Settings

, click 

Next>

 for 

SMB Permis-

sions

.

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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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