1. DL manuals
  2. LaCie
  3. Storage
  4. 12big Rack Fibre 8
  5. Technical Brief

LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8 Technical Brief

Manual is about: User Manual

Summary of 12big Rack Fibre 8

  • Page 1

    Lacie professional server table of contents technical brief: shared folders page 1 table of contents 1. Administrator ............................................................................................................... 3 2. Shared folders .....................................................

  • Page 2

    Lacie professional server foreword technical brief: shared folders page 2 copyrights copyright©2010lacie.Allrightsre- served.Nopartofthispublicationmay be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwis...

  • Page 3: 1. Administrator

    Lacie professional server introduction technical brief: shared folders page 3 1. Administrator inordertoreview,confirm,orredefinethesoftwaresettingsonyour lacieprofessionalserver,youmusthaveadministrativerightstothe device. Click a topic: ✦ creating smb and nfs shares ✦ creating afp shares quick lin...

  • Page 4: 2. Shared Folders

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 4 2. Shared folders createsharedfoldersonyourlacieprofessionalserversothatus- ersandgroupsonthenetworkmayaccessdata.Itiseasytoconfig- uresmb(windows)andnfs(linux)sharesusingwindowsstorage server 2008 server manager while...

  • Page 5

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 5 5. Fromthe provisionasharedfolderwizard , clickthebrowse... Buttontolaunchthebrowse for folderwindow( fig. 01 ).Click onthe+symboltoopenoneofthevolumesifyouaresearch- ingforaspecificsharedfolder.Youcancreateanewshared ...

  • Page 6

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 6 9. In shareprotocols youchoosetheprotocol(s)thatwillbeused andthesharename(s)( fig. 02 ).Checktheboxorboxesthat correspond to the desired protocol(s) (smb and/or nfs). For eachprotocol,choosea sharename .Whenselectingb...

  • Page 7

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 7 13.With smbpermissions ,youcanmanagethepermissionsforthe smbsharedfolder( fig. 04 )suchasread/writeaccessforusers andgroups.Toassigncustompermissions,chooseusers and groups have custom share permissionsandclickpermis- ...

  • Page 8

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 8 15.Manage share permissions for the nfs share in nfs permis- sions .Youcanaddspecificlinuxworkstationsbydnsname ( fig. 05 ). Technical note: additionalsettingsareavailableforadvanced nfsconfigurations.Gotoserver manage...

  • Page 9

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 9 16.With quotapolicy ,youcanlimitthecapacityofasharedfolder ( fig. 06 ).Thequotasmaybe: ✦ hard-usersandgroupswillnotbeabletowritedataonce the shared folder limit has been reached. The user will be notifiedthatthelimitha...

  • Page 10

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 10 18.Filescreenpolicycanrestrictand/ormonitorfilesbytheirtype ( fig. 07 ).Forexample,mediafilessuchas.Avior.Mp3canbe blockedfromasharedfolderthatismeantfortextdocuments only. Technical note: similarto quotapolicy ,there...

  • Page 11

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 11 20. Dfsnamespacepublishing enablesyoutopublishtheshared folderinadfsnamespace( fig. 08 )(see technicalbrief:dfs namespace ). The dfs namespace may exist on your lacie professionalserveroranotherserveronthenetwork. 21....

  • Page 12

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 12 22.Beforecreatingthesharedfolder,use reviewsettingsandcre- ateshare tomakecertainthatthesettingsarecorrect( fig. 09 ). Tomakeadjustments,choose tings,clickcreate. Youwillseea confirmation oncethesharedfolderiscreated(...

  • Page 13

    Lacie professional server smb & nfs shares technical brief: shared folders page 13 23.Toviewsharedfolders,gotoserver manager>roles>file services andclickonceonshare and storage management ( fig. 11 ). Toedittheparametersofasharedfolder,double-clickonitsname. Youwillfindtabsandoptionsforadjustmentsas...

  • Page 14

    Lacie professional server afp shares technical brief: shared folders page 14 2.2. Creating afp shares withextremez-ipadministrator,youcancreateanewafpshareor migrateanexistingsmbsharedfolder. 2.2.1. Migrate an existing smb shared folder thisisthemostconvenientmethodofsharingdataviaafpwhen asharedfol...

  • Page 15

    Lacie professional server afp shares technical brief: shared folders page 15 4. The volumes windowdisplaysalistofafpsharedfolders( fig. 14 ).Whenfirstopened,theonlyitemis extremez-ipprintsup- port .Clickmigrate smb shares... 5. Clickyestothe volumes windowprompt( fig. 15 ). 6. Anothervolumeswindowwi...

  • Page 16

    Lacie professional server afp shares technical brief: shared folders page 16 7. Thesmbsharedfolderhasbeenmigratedtoafp( fig. 17 ).You canaccessthesharedfoldersettingsorchangeitsproperties byclickingmodify... 8. Toaccessormodifythepropertiesofthesharedfolder,select itandclickmodify... 2.2.2. Creating...

  • Page 17

    Lacie professional server afp shares technical brief: shared folders page 17 2.2.3. Spotlight support on afp shares spotlightmaybeturnedonoroffoneachafpsharedfolderor enabledasadefaultforallafpshares.Spotlightmustbeenabled usingextremez-ipadministrator. 1. Logintoyourlacieprofessionalserverasanadmin...

  • Page 18

    Lacie professional server afp shares technical brief: shared folders page 18 7. Toenablespotlightonanindividualafpvolume,returntothe extremez-ipadministratormainpage.Clickonceonvolumes. 8. Selecttheafpvolumeandclickmodify... 9. Checktheboxnexttosupport spotlight searching.Byde- fault,itisnotchecked(...

  • Page 19

    Lacie professional server afp shares technical brief: shared folders page 19 2.2.4. Time machine® support on afp shared folders timemachinemaybeenabledonanyafpsharedfolder.How- ever, time machine support disables additional features, such as spotlight.Iftimemachineandspotlightsupportareimportant,la-...

  • Page 20

    Lacie professional server afp shares technical brief: shared folders page 20 5. Notethatallotheroptionswillturngrey,indicatingthattheyare nolongeravailable( fig. 22 ). 6. Youmayalsosetgeneralcapacityquotasforthetimemachine sharedfolderbycheckingtheboxnexttolimit users without custom quotas to ( fig....

  • Page 21

    Lacie professional server contacting customer support technical brief: shared folders page 21 3. Contacting customer support 3.1. Lacie technical support contacts lacieasia http://www.Lacie.Com/cn/contact/ lacieaustralia http://www.Lacie.Com/au/contact/ laciebelgium http://www.Lacie.Com/be/contact/ ...