Iomega 34337 User Guide - Page 19

19 Iomega® Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition 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, displays in the Properties for that Share. 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 on your Home Media Network Hard Drive before changing access permissions. 1. Expand Access Permissions to change user permissions to this Share. A security icon displays in Properties indicating a secure Share. When a 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 and choose one or more users from the pop-up window. 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