User manual NETGEAR READYNAS

[. . . ] 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 202-10320-01 v1. 0 October 2007 © 2007 by NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. Technical Support Registration on the website or over the phone is required before you can use our telephone support service. The phone numbers for worldwide regional customer support centers are on the Warranty and Support Information card that came with your product. Go to http://kbserver. netgear. com for product updates and Web support. Trademarks NETGEAR, the NETGEAR logo, ReadyNAS, X-RAID, FrontView, RAIDar, RAIDiator, Network Storage Processor, and NSP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NETGEAR, Inc. [. . . ] Once you finish adding the shares, refer to Chapter 2, "Accessing Shares from Your Operating System for instructions on how to access them from different client interfaces. Managing Shares Once you have added shares, you can manually fine-tune share access by selecting Share List. This screen has two views, one for Share Security mode and one for User and Domain mode. They are similar except for the password and disk quota prompts which appear only in Share mode. Figure 1-38 If you want to delete a share, select the check box on the far right of the share listing and click Delete. The columns to the left of the Delete check box represent the services that are currently available. The access icons in those columns summarize the status of the service and the access rights to the share for each of the services. Move the mouse pointer over the access icons to view the access settings. Figure 1-39 Configuring Your ReadyNAS v1. 0, October 2007 1-35 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide The settings are as follows: · · · · Disabled. Either (1) access to this share is read-only and allowed only for specified hosts, (2) access is read-only except for one or more users or groups that are granted read/write permission, or (3) access is disabled except for one or more users or groups that are granted read-only privilege. Write Access with exceptions ­ Either (1) access to this share is read/write and allowed only for specified hosts, (2) access is read/write except for one or more users or groups that are restricted to read-only access, or (3) access is disabled except for one or more users or groups that are granted read/write privilege. · You can click on the access icons to display the Share Options screen, where you can set the access rules for each file protocol. Setting Share Access in Share Mode In Share mode, the CIFS (Windows) share options screen looks like the following: Figure 1-40 To set share access: 1. Select the Hosts allowed access check box and specify one or more hosts that you wish to restrict access to in the adjacent field. 1-36 v1. 0, October 2007 Configuring Your ReadyNAS NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide For example, select read-only for Default Access and list the hosts you wish to allow access to. To allow only host 192. 168. 2. 101 read-only access to the share, specify the following: · · Default: Read-only Hosts allowed access: 192. 168. 2. 101 Multiple hosts can be separated with commas (see Appendix B, "Input Field Format" for information about valid host formats. ) For example, if you wish to limit share access to particular hosts, you can enter host IP addresses or valid DNS hostnames in the Host allowed access field. In addition, you can enter a range of hosts using common IP range expressions such as: 192. 168. 2. , 192. 168. 2. 0/255. 255. 255. 0, 192. 168. 2. 0/24 These designations all allow hosts with IP addresses 192. 168. 2. 1 through 192. 168. 2. 254. Toward the bottom of the CIFS screen are the Share Display Option, Recycle Bin, and Advanced CIFS Permissions. Refer to the descriptions for these options in the sections that follow. Setting Share Access in User and Domain Modes In User or Domain modes, the CIFS screen looks like the following (note the addition of Readonly and Write-enabled user and group fields) Figure 1-41 Share Access Restriction. If you wish to limit share access to particular users and/or groups, you can enter their names in the Read-only users, Read-only groups, Write-enabled users, and Write-enabled group fields. The names must be valid accounts, either on the ReadyNAS or on the domain controller. For instance, if you wish to allow read-only access to all and read/write access only user fred and group engr, you would set the following: Configuring Your ReadyNAS v1. 0, October 2007 1-37 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide · · · Default: Read-only Write-enabled users: fred Write-enabled groups: engr If you wish to limit this access only to hosts 192. 168. 2. 101 and 192. 168. 2. 102, set the following: · · · · Default: Read-only Hosts allowed access: 192. 168. 2. 101, 192. 168. 2. 102 Write-enabled users: fred Write-enabled groups: engr If you wish to specify some users and groups for read-only access and some for read/write access, and disallow all other users and groups, enter the following: · · · · · · Default: Disabled Hosts allowed access: 192. 168. 2. 101, 192. 168. 2. 102 Read-only users: mary, joe Read-only groups: marketing, finance Write-enabled users: fred Write-enabled groups: engr Note that access control differs slightly from service to service. Restricting access to a share does not prevent users from seeing the share in the browse list. In certain instances, you might not want this, such as for backup shares that you might want to prevent users from seeing. For example, to access a hidden share, enter \\host\share in the Windows Explorer address bar. 1-38 v1. 0, October 2007 Configuring Your ReadyNAS NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-42 Recycle Bin. The Enable Recycle Bin option is shown at the bottom of the CIFS screen. [. . . ] Network File System, a common way Unix and Linux systems share files by making remote file systems appear to reside locally. Amount of volume space allocated to a particular user or group account, or to a particular share. The user, group, or share with a set quota cannot exceed disk usage beyond this limit. Quota is typically specified to ensure that no one user, group, or share abuses the available storage space. [. . . ]