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description. If a WINS server is available, you may optionally fill in its IP address.
FTP Server Setting
You can enable or disable the FTP server support. If enabled, you can enter the port
number you will use for FTP (default is port 21).
Once FTP is enabled, you can remotely login to the NAS drive via FTP using your
username and password. You will then have FTP access to those folders for which you
have access privileges.
If you login to FTP anonymously and Guest Access is enabled (see below) you will access
the guest-share folder.
In order to reach the FTP server through the WAN, a public IP address should be assigned
to the NAS, or alternatively you can configure a Network Address Translation (NAT) router
to map a public IP address to the NAS drive's private IP address on the LAN.
NFS Server Setting
The Network File System (NFS) was developed to allow computers to mount a disk volume
on a remote computer as if it were on a local hard drive. You can enable or disable NFS
Server support.
If you have only Windows PCs on your home network and have no pressing reason to use
NFS support to share files, then you can normally leave this box unchecked in order to
free up system resources for other servers.
NFS and Samba perform similar functions for file sharing. The main difference is that
Windows PCs have Samba-compatible clients and servers as part of their default network
support. Conversely, UNIX systems usually come with NFS by default, with Samba being
used to provide file sharing with Windows PCs.
Note that the NAS drive has Samba enabled at all times.
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