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5. Click Create User.
SHARE MANAGEMENT
A share is a directory that can be mounted on one or more computers and filled with as
many subdirectories as desired, limited only by the space in the disk pool in which the
share exists.
A pool is a specified amount of disk space that contains one or more shares (see “Disk
Management” for information about creating and managing disk pools).
If more than one share is in the same pool, any space taken up by one share is space that
is not available for the other shares in that pool, and if any one share fills up the space, no
files can be written to any of the shares in that pool until some files are deleted. Shares in
other pools however, continue functioning normally as long as there is available space in
the other pools.
The DiskGO 3.5” Network Hard Drive supports the Microsoft file allocation table (FAT)
file system. If a disk is claimed using the FAT system, the entire disk is a considered as a
single share. A disk using the FAT system is called a legacy disk (see “Legacy Disk
Management – Basic) and a legacy disk share is called a foreign share.
Otherwise, a share is called a pool share. Administrators can control how each share is
accessed. DiskGOs support four protocols for accessing shares:
• Common Internet File System (CIFS)
• Network File System (NFS)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Windows machines use CIFS protocol, UNIX-based machines typically use NFS, and
Web browsers use HTTP. FTP is an older internet protocol supported by both browsers
and command-line-based clients. Each of these protocols can be disabled globally. If they
are enabled globally, they may be enabled or disabled independently for each share.
Moreover, in workgroup modes (see “Workgroup Member Mode”), administrators can
control which individuals can access each share. In PBSA mode, only individuals who
know the share password can access the share. In UBSA mode, read, read/write, or no
access permissions may be granted to each individual user.
Note: A disk pool must be created before a share can be created (see “Disk
Management”).
BASIC
The Share Management: Basic page lists all the shares on the DiskGO 3.5” Network
Hard Drive and the access permissions for each share.
Global Access Info:. Lists the permissions for each file access protocol.
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