Shares; Share Profiles; Add A Shared Folder - Seagate Business Storage Windows Server 4-Bay NAS Administration Manual

4. Shares

4. Shares
A share is a file folder that is available to users across the network. You can assign
permissions and settings to a share to suit the security needs of different applications and
organizations.
Shares can have shadow copies that are automatically added to a designated folder. You can
use a shadow copy to recover deleted, overwritten, or modified files.
Two formats are available for a share file:
• Server message block (SMB)—Standard for Windows PCs and compatible with Mac
and Linux.
• Network file service (NFS)—Typically used with UNIX or Linux-based PCs.

Share profiles

Server Manager simplifies the creation of shares by providing redefined share profiles:
• SMB Share - Quick—For Windows, Mac, and Linux computers sharing standard user
data, such as documents and spreadsheets.
• SMB Share - Advanced—Adds options such as quotas on file space and defining default
access permissions to the Quick profile. To use this profile, the File Server Resource
Manager must be installed as a service on the server.
• SMB Share - Applications—Use if the volume is used with server applications that
manage databases or virtual machines.
• NFS Share - Quick—For UNIX and Linux computers sharing standard user data, such as
documents and spreadsheets.
• NFS Share - Applications—Use if the volume is used with server applications that
manage databases or virtual machines.

Add a shared folder

1. In Server Manager, select File and Storage Services.
2. Select Shares.
3. Select Tasks > New Share.
4. Use the New Share wizard to create the shared folder.
If you do not specify a directory, the share is added to the \Shares directory on the selected
volume.
5. To complete the share creation, specify permissions for the folder and which users or
groups can access it.
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