Chapter 7 Control Panel: Privilege and Sharing
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7.5 Shared Folders
A share is a set of access permissions mapped to a specific folder on a volume. It is equivalent to the
Windows concept of a shared folder. You can map a share to a network drive for easy and familiar file
transfer for Windows users.
7.5.1 Share and Folder Names
The name can only contain the following characters:
• Alphanumeric (A-z, 0-9) and Unicode.
The NAS allows FTP access to shares, folders or files with names encoded in the UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/
Unicode Transformation Format) format. So your FTP client must support UTF-8 in order to access
shares, folders or files on the NAS with Unicode names.
•Spaces
• _ [underscores]
•. [periods]
• - [dashes]
Other limitations include:
• All leading and trailing spaces are removed automatically.
• Multiple spaces within names are converted to a single space.
• Share names must be unique (they cannot be the same as other share names).
• The NAS creates automatic volume names for external (USB) disk volumes. These are a type of share,
so the share name you configure cannot conflict with the external (USB) disk volume names. “ExtVol1”
or “ExtVol2” are examples of external (USB) disk volume names.
• Folder names must be unique (they cannot be the same as other folder names).
• The minimum character length of a name is one character, that is a name cannot be blank.
• The maximum character length of share name is 239 characters.
• Unicode is supported for share names, although your FTP client must support UTF-8. Full support should
be available in all Windows versions after Windows 2000.
7.5.2 Shared Folders Screen
Click Control Panel > Privilege and Sharing > Shared Folders in the navigation panel to open the
following screen. This screen lists all shares created on the NAS.
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