Managing Shares; Adding And Modifying Shares - Iomega 34337 - Home Media Network Hard Drive NAS Server User Manual

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Managing Shares

The page describes how to:
Add and Modify Shares
Change Share Information
Change Access Permissions
Make a Share an Active Folder

Adding and Modifying Shares

1. From the Home Media Network Hard Drive Console, click Shares.
2. To add a new Share, click Add a Share. Click Create. To modify an existing Share, click to expand the Share.
Changing Share Information
1. Type a name or modify the existing name for the Share. All Shares must have a name. Names cannot exceed 32 characters.
2. Choose whether to enable content search and media sharing. When Media sharing is enabled, the media server scans this Share for any media content
and makes it available to anyone with access to your network, even if this Share is secured. If you do not want media content made available to
anyone, do not check this option. When Media sharing search is enabled,
3. To view the content of a Share, click the View Content link to open the Content Viewer.
4. Click Apply to save your changes.
Changing Access Permissions
You should enable security
1. Expand Access Permissions to change user permissions to this Share. A security icon
secure Share is first created, Everyone has read and write access to that Share by default, which means that everyone on your network can read, write,
and delete files to and from that Share. When user Everyone has Read and Write permissions to a Share, the Share is not secure and is open to all
users.
2. Check Allow users to change file level security to allow file and folder permissions to be set through other programs, such as Windows Explorer or
Mac Finder, independent of the Home Media Network Hard Drive. Setting this option allows users to put additional access restrictions on individual files
and folders.
3. To limit access to this Share to a specific set of users, click the
4. In the Access Permissions section, check Read, Write, or both to set access to this Share for each user. To remove a user, leave both Read and Write
unchecked for that user. If you grant Read and Write permissions to Everyone, the list of users is also cleared since all users (Everyone) has access to
this Share.
5. Click Apply to save your changes.
Making a Share an Active Folder
1. You can optionally enable Active Folders on a Share to allow you to associate this Share with a specific feature that will happen automatically when files
are copied to the Share. You can only set one Active Folder option per Share.
2. Expand the Active Folder section and check Enable. Select one of the following Active Folder options and follow the link for details on configuring
each:
Email Distribution
Facebook
Flickr
Photo Resize
Torrents
YouTube
3. Click Apply to save your changes.
How do I...
delete a Share
on your Home Media Network Hard Drive before changing access permissions.
Iomega® Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition
displays in the Properties for that Share.
displays in Properties indicating a secure Share. When a
and choose one or more users from the pop-up window.