Chapter 7 Control Panel: Privilege and Sharing
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7.5.3 Add a Share
Use this screen to create a new share. Click the Add Share button in the Shared Folders screen to open
the following screens.
Step 1 General Settings
Figure 95 Control Panel > Privilege and Sharing > Shared Folders > Add Share: General Settings
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Type This field displays the type icons.
represents built-in or user-created or predefined shares on the internal hard drives.
Predefined shares include music, video, and photo, always exist as long as there is a
volume. If you delete the volume containing these built-in or predefined shares, the NAS
automatically creates these shares in the next volume by alphabetical order.
represents an auto share that is automatically created on an external (USB) device
when a user plugs in the device.
Shared Folder Name This field displays the share’s names.
Description This field displays the description of each share.
Path This field displays the share’s file path, for example, volume1/music.
Table 68 Control Panel > Privilege and Sharing > Shared Folders (continued)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Table 69 Control Panel > Privilege and Sharing > Shared Folders > Add Share: General Settings
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Name Type a share name from 1 to 239 single-byte (no Chinese characters allowed for example)
ASCII characters. The name cannot be the same as another existing share. See Section 7.5.1
on page 121 for more information on share names.
Description Type the description for this shared folder.