Microsoft Windows File Sharing Overview; Manual Caching For Documents; Automatic Caching For Documents; Automatic Caching For Programs - Maxtor NAS 6000 Administration Manual

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Microsoft Windows File Sharing Overview

When you share a folder, you can choose permissions that will allow or deny other
network users access to the files in that folder. For client computers running Microsoft
Windows, you can also specify whether other Windows users will be able to make the
shared folder available offline.
To make a shared network file available offline, a version of the file is stored in a reserved
portion of client computer disk space called a cache. The computer can access this cache
regardless of whether the computer is connected to the network. When sharing files, you
can use three caching options:

Manual Caching for Documents

Manual caching for documents provides offline access to only those files that someone
using your server appliance shared folder specifically, or manually, identifies. This caching
option is ideal for a shared server appliance folder containing files that are to be accessed
and modified by several people. This is the default option when a shared folder is set up to
be used offline.

Automatic Caching for Documents

Automatic caching for documents makes every file in your shared server appliance folder
available offline to others who open the files.
Automatic caching makes the contents of a folder available offline whether someone using
your shared server appliance folder specifically chooses to make them available or not.
Documents, drawings, program files, and other files will all be available to users.
Only those files that someone opens in your shared server appliance folder will continue to
be available to that person when working offline.

Automatic Caching for Programs

Automatic caching for programs provides read-only offline access to shared folder files.
This caching option is ideal for making files available offline that are referenced, run, or
read, but that should not be changed in the process. Automatic caching for programs
reduces network traffic because offline files are opened directly, without accessing the
network versions in any way, and generally start and run faster than the network versions.
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