Managing Shares And Exports; Viewing Shares And Exports - HP StorageWorks 8000 - NAS User Manual

Managing Your Storage

Managing Shares and Exports

Viewing Shares and Exports

Before network users can access the NAS server, you must give them permission.
This is a security concern. Each platform grants permission differently:
Windows
Shares are permissions that let you control Microsoft Windows users' access to
data. You can create shares for any directory within a file volume, including the
root. Once a share is created, users may attach to the share via the Network
Neighborhood in Windows and store and retrieve files and directories. If you are
operating under share-level security, you can limit access to shares by creating
read-only and read/write passwords. See
Environment
UNIX
You create an export so that users can mount that volume/directory on their
systems. However, you must first specify the access mode. If you specify a
read-only or read/write access mode, users can use the mount command to access
the volume from a UNIX workstation. This restriction is only for general access to
the system. User-level restrictions also apply to all of the files and directories on
the volume. See
page 36 for more information.
The Shares/Exports screen lets you:
You can also view either the Directories or Share Summary Table by selecting the
icon in the toolbar or using the Actions menu.
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on page 38 for more information.
HP NAS Server Security in a UNIX-only Environment
Create, edit, or delete SMB and NFS shares or exports
Create, rename, or delete directories
HP NAS Server Security in an NT-only
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