LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID
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Managing Your Ethernet Disk RAID
5.5. Managing Shared Folders
When you click Shared Folders in the navigation
bar, the page displays a list of all shared resources, in-
cluding both shared folders and USB devices. When
you select an item in the
Shared folders list, the users and groups that can ac-
cess that item appear in the Users with access list. (For
groups, the group name is preceded by an @ symbol.)
By default, the Ethernet Disk RAID includes a
shared folder named public, and all Windows and Mac
OS X users can access it and create, modify, or delete
files there (unless you change the list of authorized us-
ers or their access rights as described in section
5.5.2.
Changing User Access to Shared Folders
).
In addition, when you add a Windows/Mac OS X
user (as described in section
5.4.1. Adding Users
), the
Ethernet Disk RAID automatically creates a shared
folder with the same name as the person’s user name.
However, these shared folders do not appear in the
Shared folders list.
You can create additional shared folders and delete
them at any time. For both shared folders and USB
disks, you can change which users can access them and
what they can do with the subfolders and files there.
5.5.1. Creating Shared Folders
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By default, the LaCie Ehternet Disk RAID includes
a shared folder named public, which all Windows and
Mac OS X users can access (unless you change the list
of authorized users or their access rights as described in
section
5.5.2. Changing User Access to Shared Fold-
ers
).
In addition, when you add a Windows or Mac
OS X user (as described in section
5.4.1. Adding Us-
ers
), the Ethernet Disk RAID automatically creates a
shared folder with the same name as the person’s user
name. Only that user can access that shared folder (as
described in section
6.1. Accessing Shared Folders
).
You can create up to 32 shared folders. Users who
can access and write to these shared folders can create
additional sub-folders for organizing the files they store
there.
To create a shared folder:
In the navigation bar, click
Shared Folders
. The
Shared Folders
page appears (see Fig. 5.5.1.A).
Click
Add
.
1.
2.
Fig. 5.5.1.A.
TeChNICAl NOTe:
The Shared folders list
includes usbdisk1 and usbdisk2 whether or not
any USB disks have been connected to the Ether-
net Disk RAID. Shared folders created as a result
of adding Windows/Mac OS X users do not ap-
pear in the Shared folders list.
