Icy Box IB-NAS2001, Руководство пользователя

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Introduction
What is NAS?
NAS is short for “Network attached Storage”, which is used to name a specialized device
that offers mass storage towards a data network. SOHO NAS like the ICY BOX IB-
NAS2001 are small devices that simply share data from HDDs to an Ethernet. There are
many approaches; some are using custom shaped methods in offering the storage space
to the network participants. This approach needs special software to be installed on the
network clients and in most cases is limited to one particular operating system.
The ICY BOX IB-NAS2001 has chosen to offer the HDD space in the way common
operating systems are expecting it. This means it uses the same principles (protocols) to
offer HDD-Storage as common file servers are doing it but with less noise, lower power
consumption and in a much simpler way. The main advantage is that, that special
software is unnecessary to access the storage provided, whilst maintaining the maximum
security features, as already offered within the operation system, such as user and group
based access control.
Samba (Windows)
Netzwerk
The samba server implemented in the ICY BOX IB-NAS2001 offers storage in a way
regular Windows shares are doing it (commonly known as SMB or CIFS protocol). Even
Operating systems like MAC OS and Linux are capable of using this kind of network
storage access. It provides a maximum of security by offering the opportunity to limit the
access on users or groups.
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