Administering the maxnas r8 – MicroNet Technology MAXNAS R8 User Manual

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4.4 Shared Folder Management
The Shared Folder Management menu lists all of your shared folders and contains controls for
folder/share management, ZFS snapshots, NFS access controls and Samba user access rights.

4.4.1 Creating a new folder
To create a new folder click

. The Add

Folder menu will appear.
• Choose the RAID ID that corresponds to

the RAID set that you want the folder to
reside on.

• Assign a name to the folder.

• Optional: Assign a description to the folder.

• If you would like users to be able to locate

the share in their network browser set

“Browseable” to Yes. If you intend to allow public access to this folder, set “Public” to Yes.

• Optional: You may also choose to restrict the maximum size of this share. To do so you

would assign a share folder storage limit here.

Click

Apply

to save any settings here and create the shared folder.

Note: You must set the ACL for each folder to allow access by specific users and groups; otherwise the folder will

not be accessible. Remember to set ACLs whenever a new group or user are added to the MaxNAS R8.

4.4.2 Editing an existing folder

To edit an existing folder simply click on the shared folder you wish to modify and click

.

The Modify Folder menu has the same options as the Add Folder menu, however you cannot
change the RAID ID setting. You can change the folder name, description, browseable/public
status and the maximum storage capacity of the shared folder in this menu. Click Apply to
save any changes.

4.4.3 Removing a shared folder
To remove a shared folder click on the folder and then click

. You cannot remove any

of the default folders.

4.4.4 NFS Access Control

To configure NFS Access rights to a share,

click on the shared folder you want to modify

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